On 2003.06.16 12:37 Scott Harney 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? > > If they happen to be one of the rare mail servers that supports TLS, then no. > > > 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 something > like GPG. TLS is not good enough and does not solve this problem for email.
That's what I thought, Cox's move will prevent a good practice. TLS may be rare and it may not be good enough, but it's better than what we've got and what Cox would keep.
