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Re: SSL/TLS and port 587

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Hoffman)
Wed Jan 23 16:25:28 2008

In-Reply-To: <4796D56C.8010508@nma.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 07:49:12 -0800
To: Ed Gerck <edgerck@nma.com>
From: Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org>
Cc: Cryptography <cryptography@metzdowd.com>

At 9:49 PM -0800 1/22/08, Ed Gerck wrote:
>>Can you point to some sources of this "often expressed idea"? It 
>>seems like a pretty flimsy straw man.
>
>It is common with those who think that the threat model is
>"traversing the public Internet".

I'll take that as a "no".

>For examples on claiming that SSL/TLS can protect email
>privacy,

That's not what I asked, of course.

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--VPN Consortium

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