[12072] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: Why we spent a decade+ building strong crypto & security
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Shostack)
Tue Nov 19 21:19:30 2002
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 17:03:26 -0500
From: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
To: John Gilmore <gnu@toad.com>
Cc: cryptography@wasabisystems.com, gnu@new.toad.com
In-Reply-To: <200211180729.gAI7TxC30481@new.toad.com>
On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 11:29:59PM -0800, John Gilmore wrote:
| Now's a great time to deploy good working encryption, everywhere you
| can. Next month or next year may be too late. And even honest ISPs,
| banks, airlines (hah), etc, may be forced by law or by secret pressure
| to act as government spies. Make your security work end-to-end.
|
| Got STARTTLS?
| Got IPSEC?
| Got SSH?
I've done up a very short web page explaining how to use STARTTLS for
opportunitistic email encryption between servers running postfix.
http://www.homeport.org/~adam/starttls.html
If you have STARTTLS enabled for client authentication, it should take
less than 5 minutes to set it up for server-server.
Adam
--
"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once."
-Hume
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