Re: Transparent hijacking of SMTP submission...

[Jay Ashworth <jra () baylink com>]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "William Herrin" <bill () herrin us>

> I'm not sure I follow your complaint here. Are you saying that Comcast
> or a
> Comcast customer in Washington state stripped the STARTTLS verb from
> the
> IPv4 port 587 SMTP submission connection between you and a third
> party?

And, of course, *just* as I hit send, I remembered it was in RISKS, linking
to EFF:

  https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/11/starttls-downgrade-attacks

Note that's dated 11 November, so this is a couple weeks old now.

Cheers,
-- jra
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