Protecting message files acess even from root

Patrick Goetz pgoetz at mail.utexas.edu
Fri Jan 31 11:41:40 EST 2014


Yes, this is the answer.  If messages need to protected from everyone, 
including root, then they should be PGP encrypted at the source; with 
MUA client-side decryption.


On 01/31/2014 10:37 AM, Mark Blackman wrote:
>
> On 31 Jan 2014, at 16:10, Fabio S. Schmidt <fabio at improve.inf.br> wrote:
>
>> Hello!
>> Considering that Cyrus stores messages in files, does anyone have any experience on the protection of access to these files, even for the root user?
>>
>> I researched about SELINUX and found no conclusive documentation.
>>
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public-key_cryptography
>
> - Mark
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