At 10:38 PM 12/5/00 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
To be fair, Yahoo handles so much mail that the CPU power necessary to
start SSL sessions for all of them gets pretty expensive. They'll probably
start doing end-to-end encryption when the prices of that drop lower,
Moore's law and
On Mon, 4 Dec 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yahoo's new system works like this: Once a message is composed, it
travels, unencrypted, to Yahoo,
So feel no fear in sending anything you wouldn't mind being read before
it's encrypted?
I'm surprised AOL isn't offering this "security feature"
Bram Cohen writes:
To be fair, Yahoo handles so much mail that the CPU power necessary to
start SSL sessions for all of them gets pretty expensive. They'll probably
start doing end-to-end encryption when the prices of that drop lower,
Moore's law and all that.
Of course, this assumes
Yahoo's new system works like this: Once a message is composed, it
travels, unencrypted, to Yahoo,
So feel no fear in sending anything you wouldn't mind being read before
it's encrypted?
I'm surprised AOL isn't offering this "security feature" as well ...
I feel safer already :~)
elyn
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] writ
es:
Yahoo's new system works like this: Once a message is composed, it
travels, unencrypted, to Yahoo,
So feel no fear in sending anything you wouldn't mind being read before
it's encrypted?
I'm surprised AOL isn't offering this "security
http://news.yahoo.com/h/cn/20001129/tc/yahoo_delivers_encrypted_email_1.html
Wednesday November 29 03:00 AM EST
Yahoo delivers encrypted email
By Paul Festa, CNET News.com
Yahoo has quietly introduced a way for people to send scrambled messages through its
email service.
As first reported
