Re: Re[2]: The most secure POP server

2000-07-03 Thread Scott Gifford
Gabriel Ambuehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It works exactly the same as SSL and IMAP. You can encapsulate any TCP connection in an SSL tunnel. This includes IMAP, POP3, telnet, or even ssh or another SSL session, although the last two are pretty pointless. May anyone explain me what

Re[2]: The most secure POP server

2000-07-02 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
It works exactly the same as SSL and IMAP. You can encapsulate any TCP connection in an SSL tunnel. This includes IMAP, POP3, telnet, or even ssh or another SSL session, although the last two are pretty pointless. May anyone explain me what sense a SSL tunnel for POP3 does have (I've been

Re: Re[2]: The most secure POP server

2000-07-02 Thread Johan Almqvist
On Sun, Jul 02, 2000 at 07:38:30PM +0200, Gabriel Ambuehl wrote: May anyone explain me what sense a SSL tunnel for POP3 does have (I've been wondering about that for long...)? I mean as long as SMTP isn't encrypted the message already WAS unencrypted on the net so why should I encrypt