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A simple method for securing email
Authored by: david-bo on Jul 02, '05 06:12:44PM

Not a hint, indeed not a hint. This so called hint is spam, nothing else.

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A simple method for securing email
Authored by: chrispar64 on Jul 05, '05 05:04:40AM

If I am wrong in my understanding them please let me know...

BUT

I believe the following to be true...

ServerA is the secure server, for sending
ServerB is you None secure account

You send a mail via the secure serverA with a forward to the non secure ServerB.

Well, if I am correct, this then becomes a NONE secure mail transfer.

Reason, if two servers talk witheach other, then they MUST speak the same language, thus in this scenario, one asks the other if they speak secure, the other says NO. The Secure server NOW drops the secure and sends a standard mail, in Cleartext. This is HOW mail works.

However to truely secure the mail you need to use some form of Encryption, OR Certificate.

Anyhow it is more safe than NOTHING right.

Please beware that if any point of the mail route is Unsecure the mail int he described method, become Unsecure.

But my understanding could be wrong.
Chris



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A simple method for securing email
Authored by: PeteVerdon on Jul 24, '05 11:20:54AM

Your understanding is totally wrong. The hint is not about sending email, it's about receiving it. Also, it's not an attempt at end-to-end secure email, merely to avoid broadcasting user details over a public wireless network, to which anyone can listen (like on older ethernets with hubs instead of switches).

Pete



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