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Berke Durak (berke@gsu.linux.org.tr)
Thu, 20 Aug 1998 17:03:58 +0300 (EEST)
Well, I just thought that even if MX-to-MX transmissions are encrypted, many
users will still use unprotected protocols like POP3 to get their mail.
Secondly, unauthenticated DH-exchange is of course better than nothing, but
so is 40-bit encryption, and even ROT13 is better than nothing. Whilst
unauthenticated DH would certainly reduce the efficiency of massive
snooping, for important MX nodes having "uncooperative" system
administrators, or for important targets (political etc.), the amount of
effort required to mount a man-in-the-middle attack is certainly justified,
and in the reach of even a moderately small Internet backbone company, given
technical assistance. I personally think that you can not secure other
people's communications without their cooperation, and that E-mail is best
protected by end-to-end encryption. We have tools for that. What we need is
encryption for real-time communications.
Berke Durak - berke@gsu.linux.org.tr - http://gsu.linux.org.tr/kripto-tr/
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The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:10:59