MS-Mail Security

Hi all,


    I would like to gather informations of whether the MS-Mail server is 
secure or not, is anyone heard of somebody, say, disguise as other user 
or read other user e-mail?


    Thanks a lot

Best regards
Leo Wong

On Thu, 27 Jun 1996 23:13:23 +0800 (HKT), you wrote:

>    I would like to gather informations of whether the MS-Mail server is 
>secure or not, is anyone heard of somebody, say, disguise as other user 
>or read other user e-mail?

	I haven't looked into it a great deal, but I have forgotten my password
and was able to retreive my mail by deleting the password file and making a new
one.


begin 644 tagline.txt
enum MicrosoftBoolean {TRUE, FALSE, MAYBE};
Greg Miller: Programmer/Analyst (gregmi@mis.net)
http://grendel.ius.indiana.edu/~gmiller/
end.

Leo WONG Wing-yan wrote:

|     I would like to gather informations of whether the MS-Mail server is 
| secure or not, is anyone heard of somebody, say, disguise as other user 
| or read other user e-mail?

	Its good idea to think of mail security as an end to end
thing; you encrypt the mail for your recipient(s).  They decrypt it.
There are (decent) proposals afoot to encrypt mail server to server,
which is fine, it doesn't sacrifice security, and makes accidental
mail reading less likely.

	However, I know of two mail servers that I might trust, and
both of them (qmail and smap) come as source code.  I wouldn't trust
any MS product with security functions; what happens when it breaks?
SMB was broken for 3 months before it was fixed.

Adam


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