Closed Bug 70676 Opened 24 years ago Closed 19 years ago

Kerberos POP support

Categories

(MailNews Core :: Networking: POP, enhancement)

Product:
MailNews Core
Component:
Networking: POP
Type:
enhancement
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED FIXED

People

(Reporter: timeless, Assigned: Bienvenu)

References

Details

(Keywords: privacy) 

      No description provided.
Hmm, wonderfully terse, Timeless. I'm reassigning this to Networking-POP in the
hope that it will reach the right person.
Assignee: mstoltz → naving
Component: Security: General → Networking - POP
QA Contact: junruh → esther
fyi: bug http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28200 is for Kerberos IMAP 
support.
mass re-assign.
Assignee: naving → sspitzer
Nice Description, timeless ;-)

http://www.rpi.edu/dept/new-media-ctr/emailworkshop/emailkerberos.htm
http://www.rpi.edu/dept/acs/consult/solving/security.htm

Eudora and KClient support Kerberos. RPI (http://www.rpi.edu/) wants to move 
to encrypted passwords for everything, but mail in this day and age is still 
using plaintext passwords!!! That means you can sniff for peoples' mail 
passwords. This is a major privacy issue!

Shouldn't SMTP also support kerberos?
Keywords: privacy
Product: MailNews → Core
Blocks: 274929
Assignee: sspitzer → bienvenu
Bug #303160 contains a Kerberos implementation for POP, IMAP and SMTP. In the
pop case, it uses the AUTH GSSAPI extension, rather than doing KPOP

fixed by work in bug 303160
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 19 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Product: Core → MailNews Core
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