On 6/27/2018 4:38 PM, Rich Braun wrote: > So? In order for anyone to mount a successful attack on my email > stream, they'd have to first find out that you're one of my > correspondents and then (somehow) correlate the 1-in-10,000 chance > that your properly-configured email server fails STARTTLS on a stream > between your server and one in Toronto somewhere--with my identity. > I'm totally cool with that.
Or I become a MITM and force all STARTTLS attempts to fail, which is not hard at all if "I" control any of the backbone providers carrying the traffic (STRIPTLS, for example). You can mitigate this by requiring TLS for all SMTP connections but doing this is a self-inflicted partial denial of service attack. > There are lots of other first-world problems that keep me up at night > but prying eyes no longer are, since that 2002 federal-case. Exactly, sort of. I've long since accepted the fact that email is not private. Maybe someday it will be private but for that to requires RFC 2821 to be overhauled (again) to require trustworthy encryption and for that overhaul to become ubiquitous. I'm not holding my breath :). -- Rich P. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
