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April 12, 2019 12:50 am
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/qn_Vo787b1s/gmail-becomes-first-major-email-provider-to-support-mta-sts-tls-reporting
Gmail Becomes First Major Email Provider To Support MTA-STS, TLS Reporting
Google announced today that Gmail has become the first major email provider to support two new security standards, namely MTA-STS and TLS Reporting. Both are extensions to the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), the protocol through which all emails are sent today. ZDNet reports: 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 thwarting SMTP man-in-the-middle attacks. The two new standards will prevent this by allowing legitimate email providers to create a secure channel for exchanging emails. For example, SMTP MTA Strict Transport Security (MTA-STS) works by allowing email server admins to set up an MTA-STS policy on their server. This policy allows a legitimate provider to request that external email servers verify the security of a SMTP connections before sending any emails. Minimum requirements, such as forcing external email servers to authenticate with a valid public certificate encrypted with TLS 1.2 or higher, can be enforced, depending on preferences, ensuring that emails sent to a company's server travel through an obligatory and properly encrypted channel -- or they don't arrive at all. In addition, the TLS Reporting SMTP extension sets up a reporting mechanism through which a legitimate email server can request daily reports from other email servers about the success or failure of emails that have been sent to the legitimate server's domain. Both, when combined, will either prevent or help email server admins identify SMTP man-in-the-middle attacks against their email traffic.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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