Re: Marginally on-topic -- Secure remote email access

[Smoot Carl-Mitchell]

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>Obtaining a digital ID may be complicated by the fact that you are an
>international, non-US entity.  (I'm not certain of that, but it is certainly
>the impression the NSA would like me to have.)

You can generate your own certificate and self-sign it for the SSLized
POP server.  It works well.  On a Unix box I use the stunnel software
which adds SSL support to any service which can be run under inetd.  MS
Outlook Express supports an SSLized POP connection.  The standard
SSL POP port number is 995.

Internationally, the opensll package which gets around the US RSA licensing
issues overseas can be used to generate the self-signed certificate.
Ask your lawyer about whether use of this encryption stuff violates the
law overseas.  It depends on the country.  I know it is a felony in both
France and Russia which consider almost any encryption technology to be a
munition.  In the US you can use opensll for non-commercial purposes.
Otherwise you will need an RSAref license.

Smoot Carl-Mitchell
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