At 12:49 PM 6/16/2003 -0500, you wrote: >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?
I think you are missing Scott's real point. The problem with using TLS to secure email transmission is that you lose any encryption whenever one of the relays doesn't support TLS. The best way to get encryption is to just encrypt the email using something like PGP or S/MIME and then send it along . We all agree that you should be able to encrypt emails at will, but using the solution you suggest is not doing what you think it will. Another problem with the solution you want is that anyone can read your email on the email server where your mail is being relayed. So using TLS to encrypt the channel doesn't prevent Cox from reading your mail, whereas PGP and S/MIME will. --- Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Puryear Information Technology Windows, UNIX, and IT Consulting http://www.puryear-it.com
