Re: I'm very interested in any info. you have to give.

["David L. Nicol" <dnicol@cstp.umkc.edu>]

Wil Cooley wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, David L. Nicol wrote:
> 
> > There is not at this time a standard for encrypting the entire channel
> > between mail servers, 
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
> What about SMTP over SSL/TLS?  While in MTA-MTA connections it's not
> likely that both will run SSL, and of course without an Internet-wide PKI
> you cannot guarantee hosts' identities, you can fairly easily secure
> connections between MUA-MTA, which, for remote users, is a big benefit.


This is true, it protects you from packet sniffing from the next
cubicle, which is obviously a more realistic threat than packet
sniffing on the backbone.

There was a freshmeat.net announcement recently of an add-on to
provide SSL-SMTP to any SMTP MTA.


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