At 09:48 AM 6/17/2003 -0500, you wrote: >But, as others have pointed out, TLS only encrypts the connections to the >mail server. Anyone with access to your mail spool can read your unencrypted >email content. TLS is only a partial security solution and requires the user >to trust the mail server admin. > >So if you want true message security, don't use email at all. Anyone know of >a good alternative? Are there any free|OSS encrypted IM apps out there?
It would have to be a peer-to-peer IM also, or you have the same problem as a TLS/SSL-encrypted communications channel for email. This a good tricky question. How do you locate your peer? If you have to contact a central site to find the recipient then that really is no different than the problem we are talking about with email. --- Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Puryear Information Technology Windows, UNIX, and IT Consulting http://www.puryear-it.com
