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On Monday 16 June 2003 10:50 pm, will hill wrote:
> Well, I'll get a good idea of what's really out there soon enough, if we
> have the demo people are talking about.  I'm stuck on TLS because I imagi=
ne
> everyone running a mail server and that being the best and most secure way
> to send mail.  Why not, it only takes a 486 and the best software is free=
?=20

That's insane.  Most end users definitely should not run their own mail=20
servers.  that's one of the reasons why we have a spam problem in the first=
=20
place.

> Isn't distributed computing what the Internet is all about?  If everyone
> did that and mail was echanged via TLS would it ever have to be decrypted
> on an intermediate machine?

Yes.  You don't understand what SMTP over TLS does or the way these IETF=20
standards are implemented today.=20

If you want true transport security, you want it over IP.  It's spelled IPS=
EC=20
and we're a long long way from universal IPSEC.  TLS is a stopgap and is=20
primarily useful for corporate entities.  VPNs (using, tada, IPSEC) have=20
largely suerceded the usage of TLS in this scenario.  that's one of the=20
reason's it's not been globally adopted. =20


=2D-=20
Scott Harney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
"...and one script to rule them all."
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