Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 14:56:14 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: John <papalia@UDel.Edu> Cc: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>, sgh@hypersurf.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: _privacy Message-ID: <20000318145613.N14789@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.4.05.10003181716240.10475-100000@copland.udel.edu>; from papalia@UDel.Edu on Sat, Mar 18, 2000 at 05:18:46PM -0500 References: <20000318234630.D20206@hades.hell.gr> <Pine.SOL.4.05.10003181716240.10475-100000@copland.udel.edu>
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* John <papalia@UDel.Edu> [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
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