Re: email web security

2006-05-26 Thread Alex Alexander
Gmail offers full SSL support. You just have to access it using https:// . I use it under SSL all the time, since I tend to access unencrypted wireless networks often.On 5/26/06, Eli Marmor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: As far as I know, NONE of the major webmails is SSL;They (GMAIL, Yahoo!, etc.) ju

Re: email web security

2006-05-26 Thread Gil Freund
On 5/26/06, Eli Marmor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: As far as I know, NONE of the major webmails is SSL; They (GMAIL, Yahoo!, etc.) just transfer passwords through SSL, and that's all. gmail uses SSL all the way. With today's hardware, https is still too heavy for regular work, but this is goin

Re: email web security

2006-05-25 Thread Amos Shapira
On 5/26/06, Ghiora Drori <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Yahoo mail is not through SSL or am i wrong about this? You are right - I've just checked it - you can pick "secure login" but it will move back to plain HTTP after the login succeeds. Yet another reason to avoid them? This of course mean

Re: email web security

2006-05-25 Thread Eli Marmor
As far as I know, NONE of the major webmails is SSL; They (GMAIL, Yahoo!, etc.) just transfer passwords through SSL, and that's all. With today's hardware, https is still too heavy for regular work, but this is going to change. I expect that soon they will start to offer SSL also for regular work,

Re: email web security

2006-05-25 Thread Ghiora Drori
Hi Yahoo mail is not through SSL or am i wrong about this? This of course means anyone can also listen online. Thanks Ghiora Amos Shapira wrote: On 5/26/06, Omer Zak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Your Web browser's cache? If it's over SSL (as it is at least with Gmail) then it shouldn't be cac

Re: email web security

2006-05-25 Thread Amos Shapira
On 5/26/06, Omer Zak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Your Web browser's cache? If it's over SSL (as it is at least with Gmail) then it shouldn't be cached, should it? On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 17:11 +0300, Ghiora Drori wrote: > Hi, > I hope this is not to much of topic but does anyone know if web mai

Re: email web security

2006-05-25 Thread Omer Zak
Your Web browser's cache? On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 17:11 +0300, Ghiora Drori wrote: > Hi, > I hope this is not to much of topic but does anyone know if web mail for > example yahoo mail gets somehow stored on the local disk while reading > or writing it (specifically if you did not save to the disk

email web security

2006-05-25 Thread Ghiora Drori
Hi, I hope this is not to much of topic but does anyone know if web mail for example yahoo mail gets somehow stored on the local disk while reading or writing it (specifically if you did not save to the disk)? ( Please no specualtions about the swap I assume in the long run it get run over.) T