Hey guys, Take a look at: http://www.mailmasher.com/ It's a way to get your mail through a web page. Pretty useful when you're at a braindead "cyber-cafe" machine and want to read your mail. The problem is, mailmasher knows you POP password. Anyway to do this more securely? Cheers, Bob ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah@shipwright.com) e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "'Bart Bucks' are not legal tender." -- Punishment, 100 times on a chalkboard, for Bart Simpson The e$ Home Page: http://www.vmeng.com/rah/
"Robert" == Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com> writes: Robert> Take a look at:
Robert> http://www.mailmasher.com/ Robert> It's a way to get your mail through a web page. Pretty Robert> useful when you're at a braindead "cyber-cafe" machine and Robert> want to read your mail. The problem is, mailmasher knows Robert> you POP password. Robert> Anyway to do this more securely? Strick in SF (strick@yak.net) did a hack last year to put S/KEY into yak.net's POP server. If you had that setup on your account, you could give Mailmasher the one time password, and it would be none the wiser when you were finished. Of course, it would still be able to make copies of all the mail in your inbox folder plus it could field a denial of service attack by keeping the connection open, but it wouldn't be able to relogin. Source might be on the Yak's web site... I'm not sure right now, I'm just on a firewalled shell account, so I can't get to www.yak.net to check. -- Ben Combee, Software Developer (Will write assembly code for food) Motorola > MIMS > MSPG > CTSD > Advanced ICs > Austin Design Center E-mail: combee@sso-austin.sps.mot.com Phone: (512) 891-7141
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