Re: Re: Packet password case
By: Sean Dennis to Rob Swindell on Sat Apr 25 2020 11:16 pm
Hi Rob,
NetMail from insecure inbound, sure. I was talking about EchoMail.
That's what I get for responding to mail when I'm half-asleep. Yes, you're right: tossing unsecure echomail is just asking for problems. Though I don't think I've seen any, uhm, issues with that since the late 90s when there were certain people in a certain mail network that were causing issues.
Oh, we were all young trouble-makers at some point, weren't we? :-)
Someone else did point out that if you had 2 authenticated links sending files into a shared secure inbound, one could impersonate the other very easily unless packet passwords were used. That's one case where the use of inboxes could provide more security.
digital man
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