From: David Caldwell <david@porkrind.org>
To: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: POP3 password in plaintext?
Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2014 10:56:47 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <542C405F.4070906@porkrind.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sij8ical.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>
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On 9/30/14 10:33 PM, David Kastrup wrote:
> Transparent STARTTLS on demand would seem useless against
> man-in-the-middle attacks. It's just good against eavesdropping on
> unintercepted traffic. And you don't even need to be true
> man-in-the-middle: you just need to be faster answering the STARTTLS
> negotiation.
The CA system[1] prevents MITM attacks. The best an attacker could do is
maybe stop the encryption from starting in the first place, but in my
book that should be an error.
-David
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_authority
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-01 17:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-29 20:49 POP3 password in plaintext? Richard Stallman
2014-09-30 1:46 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-09-30 13:31 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-09-30 19:23 ` Richard Stallman
2014-10-01 4:00 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-10-01 5:33 ` David Kastrup
2014-10-01 12:54 ` Richard Stallman
2014-10-01 13:15 ` David Kastrup
2014-10-01 17:56 ` David Caldwell [this message]
2014-10-01 5:42 ` David Caldwell
2014-10-01 13:22 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-10-02 1:58 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-10-02 17:04 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-10-03 10:54 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-10-01 13:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-01 14:02 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-10-01 14:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-01 23:29 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-09-30 14:17 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-09-30 19:25 ` Richard Stallman
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