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- From: ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
- Subject: Re: SMTP mail
- Message-ID: <CKD.92Jul29133233@loiosh.eff.org>
- Date: 29 Jul 92 17:32:35 GMT
- References: <92209.190519KKEYTE@ESOC.BITNET>
- Sender: usenet@eff.org (NNTP News Poster)
- Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation Tech Central
- Lines: 23
- In-Reply-To: Karl Keyte's message of Monday, 27 Jul 1992 19:05:19 CET
- Nntp-Posting-Host: loiosh.eff.org
-
- Karl> == Karl Keyte <KKEYTE@ESOC.BITNET>
-
- Karl> The SMTP has recently been removed at our site because of its
- Karl> well-known security hole.
-
- Karl> Does anyone have a mail protocol (IP based) which allows you to
- Karl> integrate many different systems? We have Suns, PCs, VAXes, IBM
- Karl> mainframes, all running TCP/IP.
-
- This is rather silly, since you have single-user machines; IP isn't
- going to be secure anyway, unless you have something fairly strong for
- authentication/encryption (Kerberos or the like). SMTP mail can be
- forged; there are some measures to detect (not prevent) forgeries, and
- (eventually) there will be PEM. Until then, teach people to be wary,
- and take sociopolitical sanctions against people you catch forging
- email.
-
- Technical solutions to political problems are generally not solutions...
- --
- Christopher Davis * ckd@eff.org * System Administrator, EFF * +1 617 864 0665
- ``The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the
- point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation
- to tolerate speech.'' --Justice Anthony Kennedy, in 91-155
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