From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 18 14:36:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEBC337B693 for ; Sat, 18 Mar 2000 14:36:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e2IMuEk29437; Sat, 18 Mar 2000 14:56:14 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 14:56:14 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: John Cc: Giorgos Keramidas , sgh@hypersurf.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: _privacy Message-ID: <20000318145613.N14789@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <20000318234630.D20206@hades.hell.gr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from papalia@UDel.Edu on Sat, Mar 18, 2000 at 05:18:46PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * John [000318 14:44] wrote: > > > I know free_BSD has alot of loopholes but, I'm wondering if an SA can > > > capture and save, or keep tabs on a POP session easily. I know they > > > can do a traceroute but... how could a POP user prevent his sessions > > > from being monitered??? without encrypting everything? > > > > I think that by excluding encryption, you pretty much dropped any > > reasonably safe way of accomplishing this. > > This makes me wonder of another question - is there a way for a "typical > user" (read: MS Windows user) to use a standard pop3 mail program (eudora, > netscape mail, etc) to create an encrypted POP3 session? I have several > users who have asked me to set up a pop3 server, but I've refused citing > the fact that passwords are sent cleartext, as well as data. > > Any thoughts? I'd be most appreciative :) using local forwarded ssh connections to the pop3 server... win95 +ssh local pop3 port forwarded to 127.0.0.1:pop3 on the remote pop3 server. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message