Re: [IMail Forum] concerns about new zombies

[Matt]

Who needs to bother breaking encryption when things like IMail have a default password of...oh, never mind. I'm sure you get the point.  There will always be enough weak passwords to hack. Matt Christopher Checca wrote: All encryption is breakable ... all it takes is time and/or money ... and spammers seam to of a lot of time and getting at lease some money. Christopher Checca Packard Transport, Inc. IT Department 24021 South Municipal Dr PO Box 380 Channahon, IL. 60410 815 467 9260 815 467 6939 Fax [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.packardtransport.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Sanford Whiteman Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2005 11:17 AM To: Len Conrad Subject: Re[3]: [IMail Forum] concerns about new zombies So windows email client programs have weak or no encryption? I wouldn't put it that way; the problem, as any cryptographer will tell you, is that any encryption that must be reversible without user intervention (as is the case when an AUTH password is retrieved from application storage, decrypted to plain, then reencoded/hashed for transit in accordance with point-in-time handshaking with each remote host) is vulnerable to compromise if the host itself is owned. --Sandy ------------------------------------ Sanford Whiteman, Chief Technologist Broadleaf Systems, a division of Cypress Integrated Systems, Inc. e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SpamAssassin plugs into Declude! http://www.mailmage.com/products/software/freeutils/SPAMC32/download/release / Defuse Dictionary Attacks: Turn Exchange or IMail mailboxes into IMail Aliases! http://www.mailmage.com/products/software/freeutils/exchange2aliases/downloa d/release/ http://www.mailmage.com/products/software/freeutils/ldap2aliases/download/re lease/ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ -- ===================================================== MailPure custom filters for Declude JunkMail Pro. http://www.mailpure.com/software/ =====================================================