[tor-talk] Tor Mail Gateway

Moritz Bartl moritz at torservers.net
Mon Aug 19 08:49:31 UTC 2013


On 19.08.2013 09:58, Peter Tonoli wrote:
> To what point will this be? I'd say the majority of SMTP w/ TLS servers
> are using self-signed certificates. It's arguable whether TLS with a
> self signed certificate is any better than just plaintext.

I don't see any point in arguing about that: It is, against any passive
adversary. And that's a lot.

Yes, of course, you can look and complain about certificates not signed
by one of the happy CAs. Nobody stopping you from adding that capability. :)

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Moritz Bartl
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