On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 00:51, Scot L. Harris wrote:
On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 10:28, Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:
Another reason might be that some people might have privacy issues with their correspondence being stored on intermediate mail server they have no controll of.
For such an issue encryption is a better solution.
Agreed
Even going straight from your system to the advertised MX record you don't really know how many or which systems your message may pass through.
If one looks at the envelope header, the mail actually hops around.
In addition if some one wanted to eaves drop they could access one of the many routers your message passes through and capture it that way. Without encryption the message goes in plain text. Any expectation of privacy when sending email should be corrected. There is none.
I wish all users would start using Linux or at least thunderbird on windows. This way, communication can be encrypted using GPG. (I've tried to get outlook to use GPG,via a plugin, but all I ever managed is to crash outlook.)
In the end, I installed Thunderbird and Enigmail on the "The One Whom Must Be Obeyed"
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