AT&T Gets Some Backbone → Re: Personal Delivery Service.

Aren't e-mails encrypted? Meaning the KGB (NSA) can't read them either.

Most POP clients don't encrypt unless you install security certificates at each end. I can sniff one and reassemble it on my networks. Sometimes I get passwords.

If you use SSL to access your gmail account, the email itself travels in plain text. I think Hushmail is supposed to deal with that, but I'm not very familiar with it.

NV

My e-mail address is *****@yahoo.com that what I use for sending and recieving emails, my HSI e-mail is ****@sbcglobal.net

Hushmail PGP encrypts the message before it leaves the user and it only decrypts it when it is delivered to the recipient. In addition the User-to/from-Hushmail session is SSL Encrypted. Thus sniffing does no good.

How is it decrypted on the other end without a key and a mechanism to use it? Or are you HushMail on both ends?

NV

Hushmail is normally done as WebMail (although I think you can have it send you a normal Mailbox). If you send or receive via a MUA you need to use PGP to encrypt or decrypt (Hushmail allows you to get your public and secret key when you sign up for the account). The idea of Hushmail is that the email account is in their domain so not only is the message encrypted but the identity behind the address is also (you use a autoXXXXXX@hushmail.com address).