On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 10:38:19AM -0500, Benjamin Esham wrote: > On Feb 22, 2006, at 6:22 AM, Janusz A. Urbanowicz wrote: > > >And there is really no point in ecryptiong the whole access since the > >contents, the emails usually travel the rest of the net unencrypted. > But wouldn't it be much easier for an attacker to intercept all of your > e-mail by listening in on an unencrypted webmail session than by trying to > intercept each e-mail individually somewhere else? I think there > certainly is a benefit to having SSL-encrypted webmail for exactly that > reason: less determined attackers will not have access to the plaintext of > the messages. (Although granted, it would be kind of foolish to depend > upon SSL webmail if the messages are sent in plain text.)
Answering this question is impossible without actually describing the attacker's powers (defining a formal threat model). Clarify your question and ask again, now the answer is: Mu. A. _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
