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Re: What email encryption is actually in use?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Simon Josefsson)
Wed Oct 2 18:57:13 2002
From: Simon Josefsson <simon+cryptography@josefsson.org>
To: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>
Cc: John Saylor <johns@worldwinner.com>,
Jeremey Barrett <jeremey@rot26.com>,
Matthew Byng-Maddick <cryptography@lists.colondot.net>,
cryptography@wasabisystems.com
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2002 00:49:04 +0200
In-Reply-To: <20021002185639.DEA2F7B68@berkshire.research.att.com> ("Steven
M. Bellovin"'s message of "Wed, 02 Oct 2002 14:56:39 -0400")
"Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com> writes:
>>While I generally am on board with this, I can see a situation where the
>>encryption overhead [and complexity] may be excessive [underpowered mail
>>servers administered by beginners] compared to the gains.
>>
>
> The primary use of STARTLS for SMTP is for mail *submission*, not
> relaying.
While it may was designed for submission, STARTTLS use in relaying
probably transports more mail -- looking at the past month, of the
82000 mail I received close to 11000 was delivered in encrypted
streams. 7% is quite nice... I wonder how that compares with the use
of OpenPGP or S/MIME in mail.
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