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Re: SMTP authentication for broadband providers

  • From: Valdis.Kletnieks
  • Date: Thu Feb 12 18:16:46 2004

On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 22:44:50 GMT, Alex Bligh said:

> Since when was anything sent over port 25 confidential?

Since Phil Zimmerman decided to do something about it.

And quite frankly, he was right - that's the only way to do it right.

(I'm going to pretend that the S/MIME equivalents are in fact
equivalent for the sake of the discussion, modulo tinfoil regarding
getting a reliable and trusted cert chain put together).

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