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On 10.04.2010 19:04, Mick wrote: |
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> On Saturday 10 April 2010 16:32:37 Eray Aslan wrote: |
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>> On 10.04.2010 18:12, Robin Atwood wrote: |
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>>> That's very interesting, I have puzzled about STARTTLS stuff for years! |
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>>> How do I make sendmail trust the CAs? |
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>> This is neither necessary nor recommended for TLS. |
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> Why would that be? |
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Who do you trust and for what? Adding various third party CA |
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certificates, i.e. using a PKI infrastructure for SMTP for the general |
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public: |
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Pros: |
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None |
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Cons: |
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* If you ever do certificate based access control, you will be in |
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for a surprise. |
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* MTA's TLS codes are well known for the more populer ones. |
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However, code paths that deal with a lot of CA certs are seldom used. |
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There might be corner cases. |
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On a more general note, please ask yourself "Do I really need a PKI?" |
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and avoid PKI if you can. It is a mess and is not the way forward. |
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Eray |
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