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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." gpg key fingerprint=3D7125 0BD3 8EC4 08D7 321D CEE9 F024 7DA6 0BC7 94E5 --Boundary-02=_Cbx7+XyjB1biNQC Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA+7xbC8CR9pgvHlOURAs0YAJwNrcItdsP3tRIl9G5YCdsaqxjLfQCfQ4uT ZtqJMeMtCCn8q5xuHsY/wCY= =vOoQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Boundary-02=_Cbx7+XyjB1biNQC--
