SSL/TLS and port 587

Sidney Markowitz sidney at sidney.com
Wed Jan 23 00:51:08 EST 2008


Ed Gerck wrote, On 23/1/08 7:38 AM:
> The often expressed idea that SSL/TLS and port 587 are somehow able to prevent
> warrantless wiretapping and so on, or protect any private communications, is IMO simply
> not supported by facts.

I would like to see some facts to support the assertion that the "idea that SSL/TLS and 
port 587 are somehow able to prevent warrantless wiretapping" is "often expressed".

A Google search for
  ssl "port 587" warrantless wiretapping
got exactly one hit, which was your posting to the mailing list where it had been archived 
on security-basic.blogspot.com and snarfed up by Google within the hour.

(As an aside, see "Google Taking Blog Comments Searching Real-Time?" 
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080122132516514 for a discussion of this 
remarkable update to their search engine).

  Sidney Markowitz
  http://www.sidney.com/

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