That is a pretty fair take on network traffic. SSH has strong enough encryption to make the decryption effort not worth it to all but those with supercomputers. As for the internal mail, I think we can agree that some mail would be critical enough to warrant encryption even on an internal network.
Mike Quoting Adam Trimeloni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Think of your information like a letter in the mail. Well, for this > example, > think of it even more as a post-card. Your message is written on the > outside > where the anyone that touches it can read it. > > This post-card is going through the post office. It is going through mail > centers, hubs, etc. Whatever path it needs to take to get from point A to > Point > B. > > At anyone of these post offices, if someone wants to read it, they just look > at > it, read it, then pass it along like normal. How would you ever know > someone > read it? > > Regular internet traffic is not encrypted, when you send a request, you send > a > written request like a post-card. Anyone in the middle could decide to read > it. > If you encrypt it, then they may have a harder time reading it, they would > have > to decrypt it. Of course, with the encrypted message, they could say, > photocopy > your post card, pass the post-card along, then work on figuring out how to > read > it in their spare time. The better your encryption, the longer it would > take > them to figure out what it says. > > But, say your mail system is all internal. You are sending mail from inside > your > building to inside your building. In this case, if the system is set up > right, > your mail will go from your office, to another office with-out ever leaving > your > building, which makes it much more secure. Someone in your own building > would > have to be devious enough to read your post-cards.(hopefully, your internal > mail > system would know not to send this message out to the normal post-office, > just > so the post-office will send it back to you) > > Anyway, that's my take on it. > > > > > > -- > MySQL ODBC Mailing List > For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/myodbc > To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
