Re: Crypto-sendmail

Berke Durak (berke@gsu.linux.org.tr)
Fri, 21 Aug 1998 22:22:20 +0300 (EEST)

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On Fri, 21 Aug 1998, Enzo Michelangeli wrote:

> In fact there is also an Internet draft specifying how to do POP3, IMAP and
> ACAP over SSL: draft-newman-tls-imappop-04.txt . Of course, it's true that
> nobody should really trust transport-layer security for store-and-forward
> applications; however, these proposals may be useful to avoid risks of
> snooping over a telephone line or, especially, a shared-media LAN. In a
> corporate environment, this would translate into having to trust only the
> MIS people, instead of each and every employee with a workstation.
>
> Enzo

For POP3, I personally use SSH tunelling, i.e. ssh host -L 3110:127.0.0.1:110
then fetchmail to local port 3110. But this requires logging on the remote
machine first; however you can get the benefit of a compressed connection
(useful for mail).

Berke Durak - berke@gsu.linux.org.tr - http://gsu.linux.org.tr/kripto-tr/
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