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Encrypt a file to prevent unwanted viewers? josh.dylewski 07-18-2007
Posted by Notan on July 19, 2007, 12:30 am
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josh.dylewski@gmail.com wrote:
> This is what I would like to do:
>
> Send a file through email so only that person can read it. I want to
> prevent him from sending it to anyone. For his eyes only.
>
> Is there an encryption program that can do that? I don't want a
> password or anything like that. I want the receiver to not have to do
> anything, but make it so if he forwards the email to someone else they
> are not able to read it.
>
> The file that I am sending through email is .doc. I was think of
> sending PDF's though.

A quick Google search brought up http://www.bigstring.com/mail/main.php,
among others.

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Posted by Volker Birk on July 19, 2007, 12:55 pm
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josh.dylewski@gmail.com wrote:
> Send a file through email so only that person can read it. I want to
> prevent him from sending it to anyone. For his eyes only.

Forget that.

Yours,
VB.
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Posted by Madhav \"DogFocker\" Acharya on July 20, 2007, 6:07 pm
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On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 16:12:39 -0000, josh.dylewski@gmail.com wrote:

> This is what I would like to do:
>
> Send a file through email so only that person can read it. I want to
> prevent him from sending it to anyone. For his eyes only.
>
> Is there an encryption program that can do that? I don't want a
> password or anything like that. I want the receiver to not have to do
> anything, but make it so if he forwards the email to someone else they
> are not able to read it.
>
> The file that I am sending through email is .doc. I was think of
> sending PDF's though.

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Posted by Ari on July 20, 2007, 6:16 pm
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On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 16:12:39 -0000, josh.dylewski@gmail.com wrote:

> This is what I would like to do:
>
> Send a file through email so only that person can read it.

That's simple.

> I want to
> prevent him from sending it to anyone. For his eyes only.

Much more difficult if not impossible.

> Is there an encryption program that can do that? I don't want a
> password or anything like that. I want the receiver to not have to do
> anything,

Usually these are self-extracting .exe files which are problematic in
themselves.

> but make it so if he forwards the email to someone else they
> are not able to read it.
>
> The file that I am sending through email is .doc. I was think of
> sending PDF's though.

There are several services which will track your doc when it is
forwarded, I have used one (maybe it was a PDF come to think of it)

http://www.readnotify.com/readnotify/text/info.asp

with success and it does have a email-destroying option.

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