Comments on: E-mail Encryption http://www.airs.com/blog/archives/127 Ian Lance Taylor Wed, 7 Jan 2009 08:27:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.2 Comment on E-mail Encryption by: Ian Lance Taylor http://www.airs.com/blog/archives/127#comment-11533 Wed, 19 Mar 2008 01:37:40 +0000 http://www.airs.com/blog/archives/127#comment-11533 Thanks for the note. You're right--the security of encrypted e-mail will absolutely depend on the e-mail provider. No e-mail provider will ever be completely secure--they will all be subject at the least to the laws of the country where they keep their servers. Thanks for the note. You’re right–the security of encrypted e-mail will absolutely depend on the e-mail provider. No e-mail provider will ever be completely secure–they will all be subject at the least to the laws of the country where they keep their servers.

]]> Comment on E-mail Encryption by: etbe http://www.airs.com/blog/archives/127#comment-11522 Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:36:12 +0000 http://www.airs.com/blog/archives/127#comment-11522 I once worked for an ISP that had four 1RU servers installed in it's racks that were owned by that country's equivalent of the FBI. All data going to and from the mail servers went through those machines. I believe that the machines in question had encrypted remote access so that the agency in question could change search criteria etc at will. The exact capabilities of the 1RU servers in question is unknown to me. All I know is where they came from and what they were connected to. Encrypted SMTP and POP is not going to help when the ISP is a collaborator. I once worked for an ISP that had four 1RU servers installed in it’s racks that were owned by that country’s equivalent of the FBI. All data going to and from the mail servers went through those machines. I believe that the machines in question had encrypted remote access so that the agency in question could change search criteria etc at will.

The exact capabilities of the 1RU servers in question is unknown to me. All I know is where they came from and what they were connected to.

Encrypted SMTP and POP is not going to help when the ISP is a collaborator.

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