right MTA for crypto support

[Sam Ritchie]

On 8/27/02 1:24 PM, "Eric Murray" <ericm at lne.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 11:53:08AM +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote:
>> I'm getting rather pissed at diverse wiretap legislations making the
>> global rounds (lately EU is making noises towards storing a one year deep
>> FIFO of all email and browsing traffic for all users), and would like to
>> run my own MTA, with MX fallback to ISPs. I would like to have secure
>> MUA-MTA (IMAP/SSL POP/SSL and MTA-MTA (if the other end supports it).
> 
> 
> lne.com's sendmail now supports START_TLS.  Not that that adds
> any security to cpunks list mail of course.  But it does
> increase the amount of encrypted traffic.
> 
> It's relatively easy to turn on TLS in sendmail.  It's not secure
> against active attackers that can modify the data in the TCP stream
> but it's better than nothing.
> 
> 
>> If anyone knows of patches which automatically query keyservers and
>> GPG/PGP encrypt emails to targets (this is not a deep paranoia setup, just
>> a cheap measure to increase encrypted mail traffic) that would be nice to
>> have, too.
> 
> Besides START_TLS which is built in, there is probably an auto-PGP patch
> for sendmail.
> 
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure that PGP's included outlook
plugin provides options for automatic encryption/digital signatures...
~SAM

> 
> Eric