RE: [PHP] SSL & php
| From: | Robert Klinkenberg | Date: | Sat, 10 Nov 2001 16:58:08 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP] SSL & php | ||
| Groups: | php.general | ||
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SSL encrypts the data between the user and your webserver only
It does not encrypt data send by you to your mailserver, nor does it
influence the way your mailserver sends the mailmessage to the mailserver of
the user. (in plain text)
So, you need to encrypt the data in the email. It is however not that easy
to catch a mailmessage while in transit and I assume that both you
mailserver and the mailserver of the user are both secure. Thus for simple
things this mostly isn't a real issue. If you use encryption you might want
to use something standard like PGP, so the user can use his normal email
program to read the mail.
Robert Klinkenberg