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On 8/4/06, John Dietz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Yes, I realize SSL is not that secure either, but I was just using it as an example in comparison to plain ole pure-text email. The point I was making is not to assume your emails are in any way private/secure. You must use something else if you want any kind of "secure" communications medium. There are plenty of solutions out there with varying levels of security, but I had no intent on going through these and comparing them all.
On 8/4/06, L. Victor <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
2006/8/5, Denis Jedig < [EMAIL PROTECTED]>:On Fri, 4 Aug 2006 11:45:01 -0500 John Dietz wrote:
> if it were. If the information you are sending/receiving is of a
> particularly sensitive nature, I would suggest you find some other medium,
> such as SSL with encryption.
Even connections with SSL can be dumped, analysed by providers and successfully decrypted in some cases such as if only the destination server has its own sertificate, but user doesn't.
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