From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 8 10:50:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rascal.honk.org (cr523413-a.wlfdle1.on.wave.home.com [24.112.177.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E76C15AF4 for ; Thu, 8 Apr 1999 10:50:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mpoulin@rascal.honk.org) Received: from localhost (mpoulin@localhost) by rascal.honk.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA01257; Thu, 8 Apr 1999 13:56:06 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mpoulin@rascal.honk.org) Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 13:56:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Marty Poulin To: Karl Pielorz Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Strange security / mail question In-Reply-To: <370CE79B.C95C0198@tdx.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, Karl Pielorz wrote: > > Even if you could secure your box, and have it encrypt the mail as it came in > etc. - Can you vouch for everyone on the 'inbetween' networks not snooping you > or your friends mail? - You would be better off looking at solutions such as > PGP - and getting your friends to encrypt the mail _before_ they send it via > SMTP, and _decrypt_ the mail when it's on their machine IMHO... > > -Karl > A very good point. I'll look into it. M. ================== Quote of the Day ===================== Television - a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well-done. - Ernie Kovacs To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message