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Re: Transparent hijacking of SMTP submission...

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Thu Nov 27 21:55:44 2014

X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 21:54:54 -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>

> 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?

And, of course, *just* as I hit send, I remembered it was in RISKS, linking
to EFF:

  https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/11/starttls-downgrade-attacks

Note that's dated 11 November, so this is a couple weeks old now.

Cheers,
-- jra
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