Bodo Moeller wrote:
You don't take into account the many users these days who use wireless
Internet access from their laptop computers, typically essentially
broadcasting all network data to whoever is sufficiently close and
sufficiently nosy.
Yes. Caveats apply but SSL/TLS is useful and simple for this purpose.
Of course using SSL/TLS for e-mail security does
not *solve* the problem of e-mail eavesdropping (unless special care
is taken within a closed group of users), but it certainly plays an
important role in countering eavesdropping in some relevant scenarios.
The problem is when it is generalized from the particular case where
it helps (above) to general use, and as a solution to prevent wireless
wiretapping. For example, as in this comment from a data center/network
provider:
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Now, personally, with all the publicly available info regarding
warrantless wiretapping and so on, why any private communications should
be "in the clear" I just don't know. Even my MTA offers up SSL or TLS to
other MTA's when advertising its capabilities. The RFC is there, use it
as they say.
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Cheers,
Ed Gerck
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