securing pop3 transactions

[bscott at ntisys.com]

On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, at 2:38pm, Ken.Coar at golux.com wrote:
> since i have a number of people accessing the server from arbitrary
> locations on the planet, and they don't all have ssh available, i don't
> think an ssh tunnel is much use here.

  Free (as in beer) SSH clients are available for pretty much every major
platform (and many minor ones) at this point.  OpenSSH works for Linux,
Unix, and MacOS X.  For Windows, check out "Putty".

  I am not saying POP-over-SSL is not worth investigating, but it does
require explicit support in the client.  POP-over-SSH works with pretty much
anything.  "Do one thing, and do it well."

  Good luck,

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Ben Scott <bscott at ntisys.com>
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