Yes, but most Windoze users who can install a cheap wireless card know nothing about SSH yet alone having an SSH account somewhere.
IMAP over TLS is a good solution. You really don't need to install a real cert to use this, although Windoze clients usually complain if you don't (so just install your own root in them). You can also use stunnel to front-end IMAP or SMTP with most mail clients (many support both STARTTLS as well as SSL/TLS encapsulated IMAP or SMTP on a different port). Paul On Monday, July 22, 2002, at 11:41 AM, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: >> >> The big problem I can see, for most people in this situation, is going >> to be email. They're very likely to be using unencrypted POP3 and open >> SMTP that at best is doing POP3 before SMTP. > > If you have a network-connected wired machine, tunnel the mail over SSH > to that machine, then onto the network. You can do the same with web, > ftp, gopher, etc. traffic by using a proxy (squid, for example). > > Or use IPSec in tunnel mode to give yourself a IP address through your > wired machine. > > Of course, I have my wired machine routinely download mail from my ISPs > and workplace and filter it server side and finally read it by > tunneling IMAP over SSH, so I'm just a geek with no real life... I > really need to install a cert on that machine and use TLS/IMAP ;-) > > Someday, I hope to be able to answer that question by saying: > Opportunistic encryption rules! All hail DNSSec and IPv6! > > (now, back to waiting for Jagu-wire) > > -- > general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> > [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
