What email encryption is actually in use?

[Adam Shostack]

On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 04:54:54PM +0100, Ben Laurie wrote:
| Lucky Green wrote:
| >I also agree that current MTAs' implementations of STARTTLS are only a
| >first step. At least in postfix, the only MTA with which I am
| >sufficiently familiar to form an opinion, it appears impossible to
| >require that certs presented by trusted parties match a particular hash
| >while certs presented by untrusted MTAs can present any certificate they
| >desire to achieve EDH-level security.
| 
| This is probably a stupid question, but... why would you want to do this?

So that your regular correspondants are authenticated, while anyone
else is opportunisticly encrypted.

Adam

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