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Well, its going over ssh which uses networking. If you're viewing the email on a networked terminal connection, its still traversing a network as it displays it
by drzaiusapelord 11y ago
Well, its going over ssh which uses networking. If you're viewing the email on a networked terminal connection, its still traversing a network as it displays it in pine and that data gets sent over ssh. I don't see why using ssh suddenly makes you immune to these concerns. This is no different than using a rich webmail client over SSL.
- schoen 11y agoMaybe SSH has better cryptographic properties (say, around forward secrecy and key management) than the common options for delivering e-mail remotely over the network. (You could choose the key types and key lengths yourself and choose how authentication keys are stored and when they need to be changed, and you don't have to rely on an external naming or CA mechanism if you distribute fingerprints and authentication keys directly to the users.)