# HG changeset patch # User meillo@marmaro.de # Date 1234004790 -3600 # Node ID 7d85fd0da3df379b573ee2c7fa997e6c384d9255 # Parent 6494832a798c9db6910caa1d60bd3a460fa82bf7 remove further shortcuts diff -r 6494832a798c -r 7d85fd0da3df thesis/tex/3-MailTransferAgents.tex --- a/thesis/tex/3-MailTransferAgents.tex Sat Feb 07 12:00:11 2009 +0100 +++ b/thesis/tex/3-MailTransferAgents.tex Sat Feb 07 12:06:30 2009 +0100 @@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ The \postfix\ project started in 1999 at \NAME{IBM} \name{research}, then called \name{VMailer} or \NAME{IBM} \name{Secure Mailer}. \person{Wietse Venema}'s program ``attempts to be fast, easy to administer, and secure. The outside has a definite Sendmail-ish flavor, but the inside is completely different.'' \citeweb{postfix:homepage}. In fact, \postfix\ was mainly designed after qmail's architecture to gain security. But in contrast to \qmail\ it aims much more on being fast and full-featured. -Today \postfix\ is taken by many Unix systems and \gnulinux\ distributions as default \MTA. +Today \postfix\ is taken by many Unix systems and \NAME{GNU}/Linux distributions as default \MTA. The latest stable version is numbered 2.5.6 from December 2008. \postfix\ is covered by the \NAME{IBM} \name{Public License 1.0} which is a Free Software license. diff -r 6494832a798c -r 7d85fd0da3df thesis/tex/4-MasqmailsFuture.tex --- a/thesis/tex/4-MasqmailsFuture.tex Sat Feb 07 12:00:11 2009 +0100 +++ b/thesis/tex/4-MasqmailsFuture.tex Sat Feb 07 12:06:30 2009 +0100 @@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ Electronic mail is vulnerable to sniffing attacks, because in generic \SMTP\ all data transfer is unencrypted. The message's body, the header, and the envelope are all unencrypted. But also some authentication dialogs transfer plain text passwords (e.g.\ \NAME{PLAIN} and \NAME{LOGIN}). Hence encryption is throughout important. \index{auth} -The common way to encrypt \SMTP\ dialogs is using \name{Transport Layer Security} (short: \TLS, the successor of \NAME{SSL}). \TLS\ encrypts the datagrams of the \name{transport layer}. This means it works below the application protocols and can be used with any of them \citeweb{wikipedia:tls}. +The common way to encrypt \SMTP\ dialogs is using \name{Transport Layer Security} (short: \NAME{TLS}, the successor of \NAME{SSL}). \NAME{TLS} encrypts the datagrams of the \name{transport layer}. This means it works below the application protocols and can be used with any of them \citeweb{wikipedia:tls}. \index{tls} \index{ssl} diff -r 6494832a798c -r 7d85fd0da3df thesis/thesis.sty --- a/thesis/thesis.sty Sat Feb 07 12:00:11 2009 +0100 +++ b/thesis/thesis.sty Sat Feb 07 12:06:30 2009 +0100 @@ -43,14 +43,11 @@ \newcommand{\exim}{\name{exim}} \newcommand{\postfix}{\name{postfix}} -\newcommand{\gnulinux}{\NAME{GNU}/\name{Linux}} \newcommand{\MTA}{\NAME{MTA}} \newcommand{\MUA}{\NAME{MUA}} \newcommand{\MDA}{\NAME{MDA}} \newcommand{\RFC}{\NAME{RFC}} -\newcommand{\GNU}{\NAME{GNU}} \newcommand{\SMTP}{\NAME{SMTP}} -\newcommand{\TLS}{\NAME{TLS}} \newcommand{\TODO}{\NAME{TODO}} \newcommand{\RF}{\NAME{RF}}