[imp] secure IMP connections

[Rich Lafferty]

On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 01:48:04PM -0500, arijit das (arijitda@netscape.net) wrote:
> 
> The other question I have is about the mail items stored on the server.
> Is there anyway to encrypt that, so that other users who have root access
> will not be able to view the physical files via say telnet ? 

If you don't trust root, your data cannot be safe. (The data has to be
read, right? So root can see it in memory. Or root can replace the
program or library that does the encryption with one with a
backdoor. And so on.)

  -Rich

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