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Re: yahoo to use public key technology for anti-spam
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bear)
Sun Dec 7 18:11:37 2003
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Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2003 12:01:25 -0800 (PST)
From: bear <bear@sonic.net>
To: Anton Stiglic <astiglic@okiok.com>
Cc: "'Steve Bellovin'" <smb@research.att.com>,
cryptography@metzdowd.com
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On Sun, 7 Dec 2003, Anton Stiglic wrote:
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Carl Ellison" <cme@acm.org>
>To: "'Will Rodger'" <wrodger@pobox.com>; "'Steve Bellovin'"
><smb@research.att.com>; <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
>Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2003 8:44 AM
>Subject: RE: yahoo to use public key technology for anti-spam
>
>
>> I, for one, hate the idea. My From address should be cme@acm.org. That's
>> my remailer where I receive all my incoming e-mail. However, my outgoing
>> SMTP server depends on which cable modem provider or hot spot I happen to
>be
>> at the moment. It would be that SMTP machine that signs my outgoing mail,
>> not acm.org who never sees my outgoing mail.
>
>But you should be sending mails via *your* SMTP server, and should be
>connecting to that SMTP server using SSL and authentication. Open relays
>encourage spam. People shouldn't be relaying mail via just any SMTP server.
This is generally how I work it. I sit down at any hotspot and I
get network connectivity. But all the hotspot is ever going to see
of my browsing, email, and anything else I like to keep private is
SSH packets to my home machine, or encrypted X packets running
between the X server on my laptop and X clients on my home machine.
A bit of lag is acceptable. Sending private mail via untrusted
SMTP servers is not.
Bear
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