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" as well ...
> I feel safer already :~)
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.
-Bram Cohen
