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Re: SMTP authentication for broadband providers

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Thu Feb 12 18:14:19 2004

To: Alex Bligh <alex@alex.org.uk>
Cc: Lou Katz <lou@metron.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 12 Feb 2004 22:44:50 GMT."
             <23129858.1076625890@[192.168.100.25]> 
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 18:13:39 -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


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On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 22:44:50 GMT, Alex Bligh said:

> Since when was anything sent over port 25 confidential?

Since Phil Zimmerman decided to do something about it.

And quite frankly, he was right - that's the only way to do it right.

(I'm going to pretend that the S/MIME equivalents are in fact
equivalent for the sake of the discussion, modulo tinfoil regarding
getting a reliable and trusted cert chain put together).

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