SSL/TLS and port 587

[Paul Hoffman]

At 9:49 PM -0800 1/22/08, Ed Gerck wrote:
>>Can you point to some sources of this "often expressed idea"? It 
>>seems like a pretty flimsy straw man.
>
>It is common with those who think that the threat model is
>"traversing the public Internet".

I'll take that as a "no".

>For examples on claiming that SSL/TLS can protect email
>privacy,

That's not what I asked, of course.

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--VPN Consortium

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