About a year before Harvey Mudd College students Brian Carnes, Brian Johnson and Kevin Watkins (not to forget substitute Dominic Mazzoni) solved 6 problems in 5 hours to win the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest in March 1997 as the last U.S. institution so far, a physics graduate from that Claremont College was hard at work hacking computers, too: instead of continuing to improve the ELM email program (which he had taught attachments and encryption), he started to build an email client from scratch.
Michael Elkins's mutt has been handling encryption and attachments since then, of course — and much more:
›› You'll be surprised what mutt can do with email on the console. (Linux/BSD/Unix)
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