Re: PGP in Fidonet

At 10:12 PM 10/3/93 -0400, Mike Godwin wrote:
>Uploading a GIF to a BBS is definitely a different issue from those raised
>by ECPA, which has to do with electronic mail.

> private files ontheir systems that aren't communications.

Situtation:

I assume this is a gray area. But let's say at a meeting of friends
in one state (e.g., Boulder Creek, Ca), we create a Video message, 
digitize it, and sent it to that friend, by uploading into an 
account that I (habs) and the friend (rjc) has joint access to?

Questions:

Is that communications? Is it private? What if the message contains
images that might be considered "adult"?

Would it be different if that file was e-mailed or FTPed rather
than uploaded.


Or, let's say I put in some very public FTP site, but used RSA to
legally encrypt it with my friend's public key? Would it be 
private communications or public?


--
Harry S. Hawk           ON Vacation

habs writes:

> Situtation:
> 
> I assume this is a gray area. But let's say at a meeting of friends
> in one state (e.g., Boulder Creek, Ca), we create a Video message, 
> digitize it, and sent it to that friend, by uploading into an 
> account that I (habs) and the friend (rjc) has joint access to?
> 
> Questions:
> 
> Is that communications? Is it private? What if the message contains
> images that might be considered "adult"?
> 
> Would it be different if that file was e-mailed or FTPed rather
> than uploaded.
> 
> 
> Or, let's say I put in some very public FTP site, but used RSA to
> legally encrypt it with my friend's public key? Would it be 
> private communications or public?

These questions are sufficiently absorbing that I think I'll defer dealing
with them until they actually come up.


--Mike