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In reply to STARTTLS Considered Harmful

Reader Charles on 2014-08-13 at 11:41:

thanks. Very interesting. One question: how can a client protect itself against a TLS downgrade attack? How can it tell the difference between an SMTP server that has TLS but with a man in the middle and an SMTP server with no TLS?

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