Gmail Becomes First Major Email Provider To Support MTA-STS and TLS Reporting

'Google announced this week that Gmail has become the first major
email provider to support two new security standards, namely MTA-STS
and TLS Reporting. From a report:

Both are extensions to the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), the
protocol through which all emails are sent today. The purpose of
MTA-STS and TLS Reporting is to help email providers establish
cryptographically secure connections between each other, with the main
goal of twarthing SMTP man-in-the-middle attacks. SMTP
man-in-the-middle attacks are a major problem for today's email
landscape, where rogue email server operators can intercept, read, and
modify the contents of people's emails. The two new standards will
prevent this by allowing legitimate email providers to create a secure
channel for exchanging emails.'

-- source: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/19/04/11/1822228

Cheers, Peter
-- 
Peter Reutemann
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Waikato, NZ
+64 (7) 858-5174
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/
http://www.data-mining.co.nz/
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