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STARTTLS Proposal Made by Microsoft and Google for Better Email Security
📅 - Microsoft and Google Engineers made a proposal to the Internet Engineering Task Force recently to help improve the security of STARTTLS. The proposal stated that in the current form, STARTTLS has a few issue, such as failing to providing confidentiality for messages and server authentication.
STARTTLS is an extension to the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. It's designed for a secure SMTP session over TLS. A report released in October of 2015 stated that STARTTLS has increased in users, but “widespread corruption” has kept it from working properly. .
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