From owner-freebsd-security Tue Apr 25 12:17:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from jasper.nighttide.net (jasper.nighttide.net [216.227.178.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8238937BDB2 for ; Tue, 25 Apr 2000 12:17:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from darren@nighttide.net) Received: from localhost (darren@localhost) by jasper.nighttide.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA00273 for ; Tue, 25 Apr 2000 15:17:13 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 15:17:12 -0400 (EDT) From: Darren Henderson To: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SPAM Problem!! In-Reply-To: <200004251816.LAA07694@uno.tksoft.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, tjk@tksoft.com wrote: > Email has certainly become lot less reliable than what it used > to be. At least if you need to communicate with AOL customers, > it seems. Probably its being done somewhere already, if so I would like to see pointers to it... perhaps its time to start looking at a replacement for smtp. SMTP-NG or some snazzier acronym for secure messaging. Something that is designed for the environment that now exists. What features would we want to see, what features would be reasonable? - secure transmission - verifiable transmission path, every system that touches it is verifiable and authenticated - each system encapsulates the entire message, think nested pgp signed messages - make the forging of headers very difficult - etc etc etc What would a secure, difficult to forge, auditable messaging system look like? ______________________________________________________________________ Darren Henderson darren@nighttide.net Help fight junk e-mail, visit http://www.cauce.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message