[176422] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Transparent hijacking of SMTP submission...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Thu Nov 27 21:52:11 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 21:51:56 -0500 (EST)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAP-guGUTqmQ02pCbES1Ckg3Wn_3X8wmuTvdcQ03Tk4wsjMpRKw@mail.gmail.com>
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "William Herrin" <bill@herrin.us>
> > that's essentially a downgrade attack on my ability to use
> > encryption
> > which seems to be in pretty poor taste frankly.
>
> I'm not sure I follow your complaint here. Are you saying that Comcast
> or a
> Comcast customer in Washington state stripped the STARTTLS verb from
> the
> IPv4 port 587 SMTP submission connection between you and a third
> party?
Yup; that's what he's saying. This was in the technical press earlier this
week -- or the end of last.
Cheers,
-- jra
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Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com
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