SSL wrapping or SSH tunnelling? Which is more secure?

Jonathan Dean jon.dean at deanuk.net
Mon Aug 19 18:56:20 BST 2002


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Quick question:
Which method is considered more secure for services such as POP3 and IMAP4?
Making users use ssh tunnels to access the services or wrapping the 
services in ssl using stunnel?
Any views will be greatfully recieved.
Tia,
Jon


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Jonathan Dean
jon.dean at deanuk.net     www.jondean.com

Dept. Computer Science, University of Exeter, UK.
j.s.dean at ex.ac.uk       www.dcs.ex.ac.uk

Network Manager, Dean UK Networks.
root at deanuk.net www.deanuk.net

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Quick question:<br>
Which method is considered more secure for services such as POP3 and
IMAP4?<br>
Making users use ssh tunnels to access the services or wrapping the
services in ssl using stunnel?<br>
Any views will be greatfully recieved.<br>
Tia,<br>
Jon<br><br>
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