Curtis Villamizar:
> In message <[email protected]>
> Wietse Venema via Postfix-users writes:
>  
> > Curtis Villamizar via Postfix-users:
> > > How feasible (or infeasible) is it today to configure manditory TLS
> > > encryption on a public facing server?  Are there any stats on the
> > > percentage of mail servers that don't support TLS and the percentage
> > > of known large volume mail servers that don't support TLS (I suspect
> > > zero on the latter)?
> >  
> > There are two levels of outbound TLS enforcement:
> >  
> > - Unauthenticated TLS (just piss off the NSA etc.) - likely works.
> 
> DANE with self signed is unauthenticated or authenticated?

DANE TLS is the only strongly authenticated TLS.

> > - Authenticated TLS (actual security) - not by a long shot.
> 
> Is the CA authenticated?  That would account for the comment "not by a
> long shot".

PKI is MEANINGLESS if you haven't SECURELY looked up the MX
host names, for that you need DNSSEC or STS (fig leaf).

        Wietse
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