re: Netscape "secure E-Mail"
Vince rites:
Anyway, it should be much easier to use than PGP.
Can send PGP encrypted E-Mail from inside Netscape now - highlight/cut/punch Enclyptor "crypt" button/paste. This is difficult ? Read is same except punch "Dec" and notepad pops up with cleartext. Have even read encrypted mail on the VAX with Telnet that way (no, Virginia, the cleartext does not pass on the net).
* Integrated email - Netscape Navigator 2.0 offers full-featured and rich email capabilities, allowing you to both read and send secure email messages without launching an external email application.
Could do that now with a commerce server - didn't say "encrypted" email, said "secure". Prolly just sends it to port 443 on the secure channel and the server does the SMTP to the internal net. Warmly, Padgett
On Wed, 31 Jan 1996, A. Padgett Peterson, P.E. Information Security wrote:
Could do that now with a commerce server - didn't say "encrypted" email, said "secure". Prolly just sends it to port 443 on the secure channel and the server does the SMTP to the internal net.
When I examine the headers from a PC running any POP client including Netscape, (where the return path is smtp), they show up as originating from the PC's address, whether direct net or dial-up PPP. Wouldn't that indicate that the message is using SMTP not https over the link? (and therefore in fact in the clear unless encrypted in body?) I think the inclusion of the option of the Exchange client is a possible shift of the onus of PEM to MS. (frightening thought....) Where are MOSS and SMIME now?
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