Re: [dane] SMTP STARTTLS stripping in the wild

"John R Levine" <johnl@taugh.com> Fri, 14 November 2014 01:19 UTC

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Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 15:19:19 -1000
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From: John R Levine <johnl@taugh.com>
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Subject: Re: [dane] SMTP STARTTLS stripping in the wild
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> You are wrongly assuming all must clients relay via another location.
> (yes I know, you say reality, I say morality)

As I pointed out in another context, an ISP can trivially create an 
EFF-compatible spam filter by hijacking all port 25 sessions to its own 
mail server, which does STARTTLS.

There are problems that need solving.  This is not one of them.

Regards,
John Levine, johnl@taugh.com, Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY
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