Re: sniffing plaintext protocols

[Tonnerre Lombard <tonnerre.lombard () sygroup ch>]

Salut,

On Sat, 2006-08-12 at 00:57 +0200, Joachim Schipper wrote:
> > Well pgp does address another area compared to TLS or pop3s. On the
> > other hand I agree to combine both!
>
> Only if you configure your MUA not to downgrade to plain SMTP when TLS
> is not available, and so on - there isn't too much point otherwise.

In fact, every MTA which is between you and your communication partner
must be configured not to downgrade to plain SMTP. Which most of them
just do.

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