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RE: What email encryption is actually in use?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Udhay Shankar N)
Thu Oct 3 14:53:21 2002
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2002 22:02:10 +0530
To: "Lucky Green" <shamrock@cypherpunks.to>,
<cryptography@wasabisystems.com>
From: Udhay Shankar N <udhay@pobox.com>
In-Reply-To: <000f01c26a7f$3e076ca0$6501a8c0@VAIO650>
At 06:50 PM 10/2/02 -0700, Lucky Green wrote:
>Steven raises an interesting point. Having looked at various STARTTLS
>implementations it appears to me that if not the designers of STARTTLS
>then at least the authors of STARTTLS-enabled MTAs appeared to have
>envisioned the use of STARTTLS primarily to secure and authenticate
>email submission, not MTA-to-MTA SMTP transfer.
I agree. In fact, the primary reason I use (and recommend) STARTTLS is to
defeat logging by snoopy employers and/or clients.
Udhay
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