securing pop3 transactions

[bscott at ntisys.com]

On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, at 3:18pm, travis at scootz.net wrote:
>> Free (as in beer) SSH clients are available for pretty much every major
>> platform (and many minor ones) at this point.
> 
> So to email clients that support POP3S and IMAPS :)

  Well, yes, but the selection of clients that support POP/IMAP-over-SSL is
much smaller than the selection of clients that do not.  Many people become
attached to their mail clients (or the data in them).  It may be that
getting SSL working in a particular situation is difficult for that reason
or others.  SSH provides a fairly un-intrusive way to add this functionality
to existing, SSL-ignorant software.
 
  Again, I'm not saying that SSL isn't worth investigating; just that SSH
may in fact be an easier solution in some cases.

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Ben Scott <bscott at ntisys.com>
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