Re: Tor server for port 443

[Dominik Schaefer <schaedpq2@xxxxxx>]

F. Fox schrieb:
> In addition to port 443, you might consider ports like 995 - used
> for secure POP3 - and 587, used for secure SMTP on Gmail.
I just want to add, that the preferred way for encrypted POP3, IMAP, 
ACAP and maybe SMTP is to use the (old) standard port and issue a 
STARTTLS or STLS to switch to an encrypted communication:
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2595#section-7
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3207
The RFCs "discourage" the use of separate ports for pop3s and imaps, 
reasons are given the RFC2595.

There is even something similar to STARTTLS for HTTP:
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2817

So, please keep in mind: connections to ports 80, 25, 587, 110 and 
others _may_ be encrypted as well (while 443, 995 may also just use a 
crippled cipher suite and may be not efficiently encrypted after all). 
 Port numbers are just a poor choice to decide upon kind and 
circumstances (secure / non-secure) of traffic. ;-)

Regards,
Dominik