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Expand Up @@ -543,6 +543,23 @@ TLS list, the UTA working group are also developing MTA-STS to try improve that
situation, so any argument that mail senders and receivers do not expect
confidentiality is sadly outdated.

<pre>

+-----------+ +--------------+ +----------+ +---------+ +-------------+
|mail sender+--+Submit serveer+--+---+AV scanner+-----+Recip MTA+--+mail receiver|
+-----------+ +--------------+ | +-----+----+ +---------+ +-------------+
| |
| |
| |
----------------- ----------------
| TLS decrypter |-------| key manager |
----------------- ----------------

Figure: SMTP/TLS wiretapping setup using
https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-green-tls-static-dh-in-tls13-01

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1. As another example, consider (esp. vanity domain) web sites where
the domain holder doesn't have shell access to the
machine that hosts the web site.
Expand All @@ -563,6 +580,27 @@ has millions of such users, as do many many other hosted
sites where those communicating do not have access to
a shell or to the TLS server configuration.

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+--------------+ +---------------+ +--------------+
|blog commenter+---+---+Hosted Web Site|----+---+blog commenter|
+--------------+ | +-------+-------+ | +--------------+
| | |
| | |
| -------+-------- |
| | key manager | |
| ---------------- |
| | |
| | |
| --------+-------- |
+---+ TLS decrypter +----+
-----------------

Figure: Hosted web site wiretapping setup using
https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-green-tls-static-dh-in-tls13-01

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It does not matter that in these cases the third
party (AV scanner or hoster) has access to the
cleartext but does not supply that to the consumer
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