[Dovecot] Ideas for Webmail/OTP

Phillip T. George Phillip at StellarDreams.com
Mon Jul 23 20:54:11 EEST 2007



Phillip T. George wrote:
> Charles Marcus wrote:
>> Phillip T. George, on 7/23/2007 1:30 PM, said the following:
>>> Charles Marcus wrote:
>>>> Phillip T. George, on 7/23/2007 1:00 PM, said the following:
>>>>> SSL/TLS is not going to solve the keylogger and malware problem.  
>>>>> Basically, if you're on a public (or even a friend's) computer and 
>>>>> someone decides to monitor keystrokes using some application, your 
>>>>> password will be completely compromised.
>>
>>>> Well, thats true, but this really isn't a dovecot issue...
>>
>>> Well, actually it is.  Dovecot could possibly need some sort of 
>>> authorization module addition to achieve what Frank Behrens was 
>>> wanting to achieve.
>>
>> Interesting... does any other mail server support anything like this? 
>> Not that that should be the sole criteria to judge whether or not 
>> something should be added, but...
>>
> I'm not sure if there is a mail server out there that has that 
> specific feature.  Security innovations are surely good innovations to 
> bring forth.
>
>
Oh...also his post did include "/OTP", which unless I'm mistaken, than 
means Off-Topic Post ..so it doesn't really matter if it had to do with 
Dovecot or not, right? :)

-Phillip


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