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The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:11:01
steven.soroka@mts.mb.ca
Tue, 25 Aug 1998 19:30:51 -0500
> > 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... definitely 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.
I'll warn you now, If you can't stand novice questions, delete this message
now. :-)
How secure is SSL?
Isn't the best it supports is RC4 encryption with a 128-bit key and an MD5
MAC?
or does it not matter what kind of encryption is used?
Or does SSL just a type of protocol.. (that would make sense)
Ok, in that case, is the government rumored to be able to break rc4
regularly?
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The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:11:01