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Re: POP3 Security Issues
From: Pedro A M Vazquez <vazquez () iqm unicamp br>
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1998 22:17:00 -0200
Wed, Dec 02, 1998 at 09:48:37PM +0000, Crispin Cowan wrote:
Pedro A M Vazquez wrote:http://www.hitachi-ms.co.jp/bjorb/en/ http://mike.daewoo.com.pl/computer/stunnel/ PedroI use SSH to tunnel my POP3 traffic. To do this, you need sshd running on the POP3 mail server, and an ssh client on the client machine. This one-line command creates a tunnel from my local port 6666 (arbitrarily chosen) to the POP host's port 110. I then tell my mail client (Netscape, in my case) to fetch mail via POP3:6666, and SSH transparently transmits that to the remote POP server's appropriate port.
I was looking from the tipical network user we have, they are not used to doing nothing more complicated than "click on *". With bjorb you can set up a standard clear text->ssl tunel on any win* machine without replacing/changing any binaries: 127.0.0.1:*(clear)-UserWing*Box===SSL==== \ (remoteserver-simap:993)(remoteserver) | (127.0.0.1:imap) Bjorb setup is very simple, easy to automate, and does not impose restrictions on clients. On the server side you can choose from bjorb, stunnel, SSLsock, native SSL server implementations, etc). For the tipical unix hacker/nerd ssh does all we need. Pedro
Current thread:
- Re: POP3 Security Issues Rick Smith (Dec 01)
- Re: POP3 Security Issues Jason Axley (Dec 01)
- Re: POP3 Security Issues Joseph S D Yao (Dec 02)
- Re: POP3 Security Issues Doug Hughes (Dec 02)
- Re: POP3 Security Issues Nicholas Brawn (Dec 03)
- Re: POP3 Security Issues Adam Shostack (Dec 03)
- Re: POP3 Security Issues Dave Roberts (Dec 03)
- Re: POP3 Security Issues Pedro A M Vazquez (Dec 02)
- Re: POP3 Security Issues Crispin Cowan (Dec 03)
- Re: POP3 Security Issues Pedro A M Vazquez (Dec 04)
- Re: POP3 Security Issues Crispin Cowan (Dec 03)
- Re: POP3 Security Issues Markus Friedl (Dec 03)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: POP3 Security Issues dreamwvr (Dec 01)
- Re: POP3 Security Issues Frederick M Avolio (Dec 01)
- Re: POP3 Security Issues Mookie (Dec 02)
- Re: POP3 Security Issues David Lang (Dec 01)
- Re: POP3 Security Issues Rodney van den Oever (Dec 01)
- Re: POP3 Security Issues Christopher Nielsen (Dec 02)
- Re: POP3 Security Issues Bruce B. Platt (Dec 01)
- Re: POP3 Security Issues Lart (Dec 01)
- Re: POP3 Security Issues Rick Murphy (Dec 01)
(Thread continues...)
- Re: POP3 Security Issues Jason Axley (Dec 01)