On Fri, Aug 08, 2014 at 12:19:21PM +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote:
> previously on this list Kevin Chadwick contributed:
> 
> > With STARTTLS I believe there is a clear text race where an attacker can
> > create a response stating STARTTLS is unsupported resulting in
> > cleartext transmission which I believe would not be the case for smtps.
> 
> If as I guess there isn't any good solution? Would it be an idea and
> how much effort would it be to track servers supporting STARTTLS and
> refuse plain text in the future. Or is it enough to know a request for
> STARTTLS means that an IP supports STARTTLS for a short period?
> 

A good solution to what ?
I don't understand your "clear text race" thing



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Gilles Chehade

https://www.poolp.org                                          @poolpOrg

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