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On Monday 16 June 2003 12:49 pm, will hill wrote: > That is great. It cuts down on my nosy cable neighbor's ability to read = my > mail. Your noisy neighbor can't read your mail now. (1) > Let's suppose my mail program has this and I am the relay and I support > this and my destination has a mail server that supports this. Does that > not give me transparent encryption all the way through? Shouldn't we > encourage this? Now that Cox forces me to use their mail server, can't > they keep this from happening? If they happen to be one of the rare mail servers that supports TLS, then n= o. > uses unless it's privacy is secure. Privacy can only be secured if > everything is encrypted. We should expect this to happen and work to make > it so. TLS does NOT get you there. If you want email privacy, you MUST use somethi= ng=20 like GPG. TLS is not good enough and does not solve this problem for email= =2E =20 (1) People still believe that cable is shared as if you are connected to on= e=20 big ethernet hub. This is not true. it is much more like an ethernet swit= ch=20 under DOCSIS and you are quite isolated. This is still susceptible to=20 arp-cache poisoning techniques but these are not available to the casual=20 user. I know this because I formerly built and adminned cable systems. I = do=20 not advise that you arp-cache poison or turn your internet facing NIC=20 promiscuous unless you've got permission from your ISP. (you won't get it ;= )=20 ) Google has the answers. =2D-=20 Scott Harney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...and one script to rule them all." gpg key fingerprint=3D7125 0BD3 8EC4 08D7 321D CEE9 F024 7DA6 0BC7 94E5 --Boundary-02=_MBg7+v6oB4UF7Re Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA+7gBM8CR9pgvHlOURAo0TAJ4pEh7MU5jjqmMztqMcodf0j2sf4wCggiAz UdjMqFP0RkoiGespN0/hECw= =CU72 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Boundary-02=_MBg7+v6oB4UF7Re--
