[113836] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: SSL/TLS and port 587
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sidney Markowitz)
Wed Jan 23 08:05:15 2008
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:51:08 +1300
From: Sidney Markowitz <sidney@sidney.com>
To: Cryptography <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
In-Reply-To: <47963820.7060802@nma.com>
Ed Gerck wrote, On 23/1/08 7:38 AM:
> The often expressed idea that SSL/TLS and port 587 are somehow able to prevent
> warrantless wiretapping and so on, or protect any private communications, is IMO simply
> not supported by facts.
I would like to see some facts to support the assertion that the "idea that SSL/TLS and
port 587 are somehow able to prevent warrantless wiretapping" is "often expressed".
A Google search for
ssl "port 587" warrantless wiretapping
got exactly one hit, which was your posting to the mailing list where it had been archived
on security-basic.blogspot.com and snarfed up by Google within the hour.
(As an aside, see "Google Taking Blog Comments Searching Real-Time?"
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080122132516514 for a discussion of this
remarkable update to their search engine).
Sidney Markowitz
http://www.sidney.com/
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