On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 4:37 PM, Kyle Mathews <[email protected]> wrote: > Well... all I can say is I'm glad I use gmail which encrypts all of its > traffic. > --Kyle Mathews >
The problem here is that if your message gets sent to a BYU address, or from BYU it is scannable. Your connection to gmail and back is secure, but your mail routes through SMTP. Does gmail use TLS with SMTP if available? Is it even available with most BYU addresses? The CS department does provide SMTP with TLS (or did when I was there), but you've got to be sure your end starts the TLS session when connecting. Of course that only secures traffic from you to the CS department. Then of course the CS department needs to use TLS when it sends messages to you. Now just scale the need to have two way TLS on SMTP across all the addresses you send, and then you'll have un-sniffable mail. And don't forget IMAPS and POPS for your mail client. Or HTTPS for all web traffic as with gmail. Scott -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info (unsubscribe here): http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
