
lmccarth@cs.umass.edu wrote:
Wayne Madsen wrote somewhere:
A knowledgeable government source claims that the NSA has concluded agreements with [...] Netscape to permit the introduction of the means to prevent the anonymity of Internet electronic mail, [...]
I suspect this may actually mean that they're pushing Netscape to incorporate cryptographic authentication into browser email, which I think is a useful development. I'm not aware of any public remailers previously operated by Netscape Communications Corp. that have now shut down. ;)
Actually I believe that the quote from Madsen is his overblowing and misinterpretation of our agreement to sell the government fortezza enabled products. There is no agreement that I know of between us and the NSA regarding anonymity or e-mail. Since I'm the one doing the code, someone had better tell me if there is...
At any rate, it's an excuse for me to ask some questions:
(0) I'm not aware of any class library objects or methods in stand-alone Java for calling the local mail transport agent. Is there any class library support in Java+{Navigator, HotJava, Mosaic, NetCruiser, the AOL web tool, etc.} for applet calls to the local mail agent that's configured in the browser ?
I would prefer not to reimplement SMTP using the Socket class in my own applets. Ideally I'd like to have an applet that presents a form with some entry boxes and check boxes, quantizes and encrypts the input according to the check box settings, and spews the resulting byte streams to the MTA.
We do not curently allow Java to get access to our mail subsystem.
(1) As I recall, I used to be able to set (as an Option) the path and name of the local MTA (e.g. /usr/lib/sendmail) in an earlier version of Netscape. That seems to have disappeared in Navigator 2.0. Is there indeed no longer a way to set that ?
It occurs to me that we could have achieved partial integration of remailing into Navigator quite cheaply with that option.
I believe that we have always spoken SMTP via direct connection to port 25 on your designated mail server. --Jeff -- Jeff Weinstein - Electronic Munitions Specialist Netscape Communication Corporation jsw@netscape.com - http://home.netscape.com/people/jsw Any opinions expressed above are mine.
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