On 06/25/2018 03:40 PM, Richard Pieri wrote:
On 6/25/2018 12:07 PM, Rich Braun wrote:
Not mine, at least not in clear-text. Backbone providers only see
encrypted streams between my email server and my service providers'
systems located in France and Canada. I'm not aware of any government
What kind of encryption is used on the backbone connections between your
providers in France, Canada and mine in the US?
Answer: none. There's clear text SMTP in there somewhere and that
somewhere can be used to eavesdrop.
I believe very strongly in "Perfection is the enemy of progress". Just
because I can't completely protect my mail from others doesn't prevent
me from doing what I can. However, other parties having access to my
mail at rest for long periods of time is a very different problem than
other parties having access to my mail for milliseconds (assuming they
are not caching mail going through their system out of band). The
former could be done with a Raspberry Pi over time. This belief is one
of the founding principles of Agile and Lean. Minimum viable product,
incremental improvements, inspect and adapt.
I also want to run my own mail server for other reasons than privacy
though. For instance, not being a SysAdmin, I don't have daily
opportunities to work on those skills. I also like to have a platform to
test software out on that's connected to the internet.
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