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Old 02-06-2008, 10:00 AM   #21 (permalink)
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I just though of an additional layer of protection to John's Idea.
When you create an internet message (like this one) as it is traveling to the server e.g. scubatoys server, or your e-mail server, it is clear text.

If you put the e-mail in the draft folder, it only travels to the server once, and most online e-mail accounts do that as a ssl encrypted connection. If you were sending it as an e-mail, after you securely typed it, it would unsecurely pass out to the internet from the outbound (SMTP) server to the inbound (POP IMAP or HTTP) server. Potentialy this could be sniffed.
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