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Alexander Kjeldaas (astor@guardian.no)
Sat, 22 Aug 1998 20:10:14 +0200
On Fri, Aug 21, 1998 at 05:46:15PM -0500, steven.soroka@mts.mb.ca wrote:
>
> Yup, helps a lot.. but the most obvious problem with the above is that
> if the other MTA doesn't support the "PGP session", it would be sent
> normally.. although this generally takes the security of email up a
> step, there's no reliability, and you wouldn't be able to trust that
> your mail is safe unless this is widely used, or unless you can specify
> to return the mail if a secure connect cannot be made...
>
> Hmm.. I guess it's a pretty good idea... definately not a total-security
> solution... more like a step toward upgrading mail security.
>
I haven't followed this discussion, but have you considered simply
SSLifying sendmail? AFAIK there's even an IANA reserved port for
ssmtp.
astor
-- Alexander Kjeldaas, Guardian Networks AS, Trondheim, Norway http://www.guardian.no/
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