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GMail Security question
http://sitekreator.com/satishtalim/index.html

This isn't really a new feature, more like a discovered feature. what it is is if you go to https://mail.google.com as opposed to http://mail.google.com (notice the "s" in the first one). the normal login is secure obviously, to protect your password, but once you login your session isn't secure, which is typical of free webmail (i don't know of a free webmail service that is secure). if you add the "s" at the end of the http, not only will your login be secure, but your entire session is secure (!!). Checking the security certicate, the encryption type is AES-256 256bit encryption. Am I correct in assuming that anything I send/receive on this secure connection is unviewable by people who might want to (no comments please)? I was under the impression that certain types of 128bit were virtually uncrackable (security now had an episode about this, something like one computer taking 60 years or something), so 256 I would assume is even better, but the types of encryption is something I'm not too familiar with.

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QuickView: GMail Security question - cds0528 10/10/2006 09:19
Yes in fact on hak.5 they recommend this because you can use... - byerspc 10/10/2006 18:23
Cool... very cool. this would apply to emails i send right i... - cds0528 10/10/2006 20:24
correct any email would be encrypted. very neat stuff. Any o... - byerspc 10/11/2006 19:55
so your saying that if i sent an email while in the https to... - PBMiller 10/12/2006 19:43
FYI Steve Gibson recently talked about this on the last epis... - byerspc 10/13/2006 14:47
I remember listening to that the other day and he scared me ... - cds0528 10/13/2006 19:57

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