Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.redatomik.org!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed7.news.xs4all.nl!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.019 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.96; '*S*': 0.00; 'python,': 0.02; 'that?': 0.05; 'extracted': 0.07; 'gpg': 0.09; 'developers,': 0.10; 'django': 0.13; 'server,': 0.15; '(say': 0.16; 'from:addr:torriem': 0.16; 'from:name:michael torrie': 0.16; 'himself.': 0.16; 'lawyer.': 0.16; 'possible?': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.16; 'password.': 0.22; "user's": 0.22; 'am,': 0.23; 'header:In- Reply-To:1': 0.24; "i've": 0.25; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.26; 'then.': 0.27; 'hash': 0.29; 'anyone': 0.32; 'knows': 0.32; 'his/her': 0.33; 'passwords': 0.33; 'username': 0.33; 'message- id:@gmail.com': 0.34; 'except': 0.34; 'worked': 0.34; 'server': 0.34; 'could': 0.35; 'court': 0.35; 'but': 0.36; 'possible': 0.36; '2005': 0.36; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.36; 'subject:: ': 0.37; 'two': 0.37; 'received:org': 0.37; 'why': 0.39; 'received:192': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.40; 'where': 0.40; 'software': 0.40; 'your': 0.60; 'body': 0.61; 'charset:windows-1252': 0.62; '2000': 0.63; 'encrypted': 0.66; 'receive': 0.71; 'mail.': 0.75; 'tel': 0.81; 'israeli': 0.84; 'police.': 0.84; 'speedy': 0.84 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at torriefamily.org Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2015 09:04:42 -0600 From: Michael Torrie User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: Encrypted web mail References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20+ Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 25 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1439651094 news.xs4all.nl 2839 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:54360 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:95394 On 08/15/2015 03:47 AM, Uri Even-Chen wrote: > To Python, Django and Speedy Mail Software developers, > > Is it possible to make Speedy Mail encrypted? I want mail to be encrypted > on the server, and only the user will be able to read his/her mail. The > user's password will be encrypted on the server and nobody will be able to > read the user's mail except the user himself. Is it possible? When I had > Speedy Mail from 2000 to 2005 I received a court order by a court in Tel > Aviv once from two policemen to give a specific user's password to the > Israeli police, and the password and mail were not encrypted then. And I > was not allowed to tell anyone about this court order, except my lawyer. > But I refused to give the user's password to the police. So if I receive a > court order again, I don't want to be able to give the user's password or > mail to anyone, and I don't want it to be on the servers unless it's > encrypted. That's why I want it to be encrypted. If I receive a court order > again I want to be able to tell the police that the mail and password are > encrypted, and only the user knows the password and is able to read his > mail. Is it possible? Could you encrypt your email body with gpg (say with a subprocess) and then email that? As to the username and password, I've never worked on a system where passwords could even be extracted by a sysadmin. I could tell you the salted hash but never the password.