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Re: [vps-mail] SSL-secure SMTP on VPS / VPS1 blocked?



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On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 11:49:50 -0500 (EST), "Bennett Lanford"
<ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> (However, because of the nature of the SMTP protocol, on the Internet at
> large there is no guarantee that e-mail encrypted for one phase of its
> delivery will be encrypted at every step of its journey.)

Exactly. The only way to achieve full encryption for the complete delivery
chain is to encrypt the data at the source and to send that already
encrypted data over a normal connection.

GnuPG is a good starting point: http://www.gnupg.org

- -- 
G. Stewart - gstewart@xxxxxxxxxxx

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