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Subject: Re: Fakemail (again)
From: long-morrow @ CS . YALE . EDU
Date: Thu, 9 May 1996 17:11:07 -0400 (EDT)
To: firewalls @ GreatCircle . COM, michael @ memra . com

On Wed, 8 May 1996, Stefan Gal wrote:

> Telnetting to port 25 and faking a mail session, will usually break most every
one's
> security. Can this problem ever be fixed?
                                              


Easy :-)

Only accept, read and trust E-mail which has been cryptographically
signed (PGP, PEM).  Throw everything else out :-)

- Morrow


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