Just because you are logged into a webmail client with https (SSL) doesn’t mean that your email is unreadable by your company. Some companies insert an SSL proxy that decodes, inspects and reencodes the SSL and sends it on to your webmail. The only way to be sure is to check your certificate and make sure it is from the site you are sending to.
Listen to or read the show notes for Steve Gibson’s (and Leo Laporte) Security Now podcast episode 64 titled “Listener Feedback Q&A #12″ at http://www.grc.com/securitynow.htm
(in the show notes, use your browsers Find command and look for SSL, it is the first reference that is in the body of the notes)
September 1st, 2006 at 8:16 pm
Wow! We’re over 1,000 years old!
September 3rd, 2006 at 4:49 pm
Fixed the typo…
December 3rd, 2006 at 3:12 am
Just because you are logged into a webmail client with https (SSL) doesn’t mean that your email is unreadable by your company. Some companies insert an SSL proxy that decodes, inspects and reencodes the SSL and sends it on to your webmail. The only way to be sure is to check your certificate and make sure it is from the site you are sending to.
Listen to or read the show notes for Steve Gibson’s (and Leo Laporte) Security Now podcast episode 64 titled “Listener Feedback Q&A #12″ at
http://www.grc.com/securitynow.htm
(in the show notes, use your browsers Find command and look for SSL, it is the first reference that is in the body of the notes)