Bill Stewart wrote: | | If your organization is an ISP, the risks are letting them | handle your email at all (especially with currently proposed | mandatory eavesdropping laws), and STARTTLS provides a | mechanism for direct delivery that isn't as likely to be blocked | by anti-spamming restrictions on port 25. | Now to get some email *clients* using it. |
BTW, most and probably all of the major mail clients out there will do STARTTLS *for SMTP*. It's a matter of servers offering it and clients being configured to actually use it. It'd be nice if they always used it if it's available, but right now I think they all require being told to. Specifically, Mozilla, Outlook, Outlook Express, Netscape (all the way back to 4.7x at least), Evolution, and Eudora all support STARTTLS (again, for SMTP). I imagine there are others that do as well. Amusingly, virtually none of them support STARTLS on any other protocol. :) IMAP and POP are almost all supported only on dedicated SSL ports (IMAPS, POP3S). Argh. Regards, Jeremey. -- Jeremey Barrett [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Key: http://rot26.com/gpg.asc GnuPG fingerprint: 716E C811 C6D9 2B31 685D 008F F715 EB88 52F6 3860 --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]