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A system for ensuring & authenticating STARTTLS encryption between mail servers

5 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 1 story, 4 comments · first 2014-08-26 · latest 2018-06-26

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  1. …but the message is sent over the insecure communication. So it shouldn't cause any breakage. See https://github.com/EFForg/starttls-everywhere/blob/master/RU... for more info.
    comment by the_zeroth_law · 2018-06-26 · in STARTTLS Everywhere
  2. …because of "WARNING: this is a pre-alpha codebase. Do not run it on production mailservers!!!" in https://github.com/EFForg/starttls-everywhere
    comment by parliament32 · 2018-06-25 · in Announcing STARTTLS Everywhere: Securing Hop-To-Hop Email Delivery
  3. We are working on a workaround for this: https://github.com/EFForg/starttls-everywhere I'm not sure one could say that this makes STARTTLS non-broken, but it will help mitigate the MITM risk.
    comment by schoen · 2014-11-12 · in ISPs Removing Their Customers' Email Encryption
  4. …which has issues. Also, EFF is working on a project like HTTPS Everywhere but for SMTP encryption: https://github.com/EFForg/starttls-everywhere
    comment by agwa · 2014-08-26 · in Email encryption in transit