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Re: [Uta] SMTP Over TLS on Port 26 - Implicit TLS Proposal

Alice Wonder <alice@domblogger.net> Tue, 08 January 2019 01:57 UTC

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From: Alice Wonder <alice@domblogger.net>
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Subject: Re: [Uta] SMTP Over TLS on Port 26 - Implicit TLS Proposal
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On 1/7/19 5:50 PM, Peter Gutmann wrote:
> Alice Wonder <alice@domblogger.net> writes:
> 
>> If it were up to me, an RFC would be published deprecating opportunistic TLS
>> for SMTP.
> 
> Assuming you're actually serious, why?
> 
> Peter.
> 

I'm a privacy zealot and many people have trouble getting PGP or S/MIME 
to work. I've met Ph.Ds who couldn't figure it out.

Requiring TLS not only gives passive protection, but it also means we 
would have the assumption of privacy when communicating with e-mail 
which at least in the United States has legal ramifications for law 
enforcement snooping on e-mail w/o a warrant.

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