Saturday, December 24, 2005

encrypted sendmail

How difficult would it be to encrypt the SMTP link between two sendmail servers on the internet (especially over the backbone) preferably with a cryptographic protocol with perfect forward secrecy? It seems like a straightforward application of Diffie-Hellman. Does the NSA have the ability to introduce man-in-the-middle attacks on the backbone? (Well, yes.)

Nevertheless, some crypto is probably better than none.

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