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The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:10:59
C Matthew Curtin (cmcurtin@interhack.net)
Wed, 19 Aug 1998 23:51:30 -0400 (EDT)
>>>>> "Peter" == Trei, Peter <ptrei@securitydynamics.com> writes:
Peter> I'd like to second Perry's suggestion of building a
Peter> crypto-enabled version of sendmail.
As do I.
Probably about two years ago, I suggested this very thing to Eric
Allman, et al. I received back a number of negative replies,
including some remarks to the effect of `too many people confusing
transport-layer security with application-layer'[*], and that securing
the SMTP transport mechanism was the Wrong Thing to do, especially in
light of PGP at one end of the spectrum and "IPsec stuff" at the other
end.
[* I don't remember exactly what the words were, so I might be
misquoting here. The point is that, irony of ironies, I was being
given a bit of a lecture on security from the maintainers of sendmail.
I found this more than a little bit amusing, and sad.]
-- Matt Curtin cmcurtin@interhack.net http://www.interhack.net/people/cmcurtin/
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:10:59