On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Boyle Owen wrote: > SSL and mail? Usually, SSL is used to secure the communications between > a webserver and its clients. I guess you could encrypt SMTP traffic but > I've never done it (no doubt someone else will comment on this).
The SMTP verb is STARTTLS. See RFC 3207. Something like this is also defined for POP, IMAP, ACAP, and some others. I've been toying with the idea of inventing a new UUCP protocol to provide authentication and secure transport using TLS (but there's no code yet). There are lots of uses for something like TLS, beyond web stuff, and probably many more yet to be discovered. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] MS Windows *is* user-friendly, but only for certain values of "user". ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
