[Users] PGP in claws

TN Patriot irgunii at gmail.com
Sat Apr 4 16:46:21 CEST 2015


On Sat, 4 Apr 2015 14:59:13 +0100
Kevin Chadwick <m8il1ists at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 02 Apr 2015 21:08:06 -0400
> Mike Miskulin wrote:
> 
> >  as more and more email goes by 
> > TLS server to server connection.
> This thread is silly, you have the key so do what you want. GPG works
> well with claws. I just wanted to throw in that until the issues with
> DNSSEC are resolved for key size and deployability (amplification etc.)
> and DANE is in use then STARTTLS means that there is 0 guarantee of
> security protection from TLS for email where the connection can be MITM
> which is likely required for plain text interception too. Of course
> passive eavesdroppers will not get the data by default due to STARTTLS
> but they could prevent STARTTLS if they wanted to become active. The
> best you can do is DOS yourself in case of an attack but even that is
> not practical today.
>

  Thank the gods that someone else with some common sense speaks up and tries to
  lay this idiotic thread to waste.


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