At 01:17 AM 9/12/2002, Chuck Yerkes wrote: >Quoting Carles Xavier Munyoz Bald� ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On Wednesday 11 September 2002 14:11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Carles Xavier Munyoz Bald� wrote: > > > > Using TSL in the pop3 communication for read the messages > > > > from your mailbox has no sense because the messages have > > > > traversed the internet until reach your mailbox in clear > > > > text. > > > > > > Not all email traverses the Internet. > > > To believe otherwise is naive. > > > > Ok, but the messages are send out of your computer to the wire in clear > text, > > and in the same wire may be people of your company sniffing network > traffic > > and looking at all your private email :-) > > >okay, I'll use small words: >No. You are wrong. When my internal machines all use SMTP/TLS, >the mail (and by mail I mean SMTP mail leaving my computer) goes >to my server ENCRYPTED. Now that's a long word, but I'll risk it. > >End to end encryption for SMTP (via ports 25 or 587 for SENDING >and 995 for GETTING the mail). > >At no time is it on the network (LAN or Internet) is it in the clear.
Have you an altered mail store used on your SMTP/POP server so that the messages are stored on disk encrypted? No? If not, then someone breaking into your mail server (or an administrator of said server) IS able to view the content of email messages. PGP encryption (didn't say signing, I said encryption) prevents viewing by third parties. >The mail is ALWAYS encrypted. Even on disk? >Now stop wasting my bandwidth with PGP signatures that I have >no way of verifying (or any care to verify - it doesn't matter). PGP is readily available for most platforms. If you don't want to see people's signatures, that's just fine. If you don't want folks to send them, you might want to add a procmail rule to toss out signed email. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Daniel Senie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Amaranth Networks Inc. http://www.amaranth.com
