Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 12:02:58 +0200 From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> To: Dan Langille <dan@langille.org> Cc: Alex Zepeda <jazepeda@pacbell.net>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MTA authentications Message-ID: <p0510031eb74b98d6041c@[194.78.241.123]> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0106121617410.98765-100000@lists.unixathome.org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0106121617410.98765-100000@lists.unixathome.org>
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At 4:20 PM +1200 6/12/01, Dan Langille wrote:
> I don't ever remember setting up a certificate. Where should I be
> looking?
Then you probably don't have one.
> Hmmm, I think that's the option for me. Anyone know what I should be
> looking for?
I haven't actually set up STARTTLS myself, so I'm not sure where
the certificate should be stored.
> Please explain to me how having a certificate will make me more secure.
Because, with a proper certificate, all the e-mail you send to
other correctly configured STARTTLS-enabled servers will now go over
an encrypted link to that server, preventing anyone from sniffing any
of the content once the STARTTLS negotiation has completed.
--
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
/* efdtt.c Author: Charles M. Hannum <root@ihack.net> */
/* Represented as 1045 digit prime number by Phil Carmody */
/* Prime as DNS cname chain by Roy Arends and Walter Belgers */
/* */
/* Usage is: cat title-key scrambled.vob | efdtt >clear.vob */
/* where title-key = "153 2 8 105 225" or other similar 5-byte key */
dig decss.friet.org|perl -ne'if(/^x/){s/[x.]//g;print pack(H124,$_)}'
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