What email encryption is actually in use?

Udhay Shankar N udhay at pobox.com
Thu Oct 3 09:32:10 PDT 2002


At 06:50 PM 10/2/02 -0700, Lucky Green wrote:

>Steven raises an interesting point. Having looked at various STARTTLS
>implementations it appears to me that if not the designers of STARTTLS
>then at least the authors of STARTTLS-enabled MTAs appeared to have
>envisioned the use of STARTTLS primarily to secure and authenticate
>email submission, not MTA-to-MTA SMTP transfer.

I agree. In fact, the primary reason I use (and recommend) STARTTLS is to 
defeat logging by snoopy employers and/or clients.

Udhay

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