Can NOD32 Beta4 Protect ssl secured pop2 email

My email provider uses SSL encryption to protect both incomming and out going email usinf port 995, can NOD32 still scans this with the email scanner

 

Hi,

sorry, this is not possible.

Cheers,

jan

 

...i suppose because SSL encryption is a matter between your mail client and the server, in other words all information that leaves the client (and passes the port you mentioned) is encrypted and will get decrypted only in the server application - and vice versa, so any scanner in between can only access an encrypted ciphertext stream...

So, it's not a weakness specific to any particular scanner...

(The only workaround would be to insert your scanner as an SSL "man-in-the-middle", i.e. your mailclient would communicate with the scanner via SSL and the scanner would communicate with the server - but then the SSL certificates that server and client use are not transparent (Proxomitron offers to function in this way using a third-party library for SSL https).)

CU,
Andreas