AOCE: Are Messages Between Client and Server Encrypted (10/93)

Article Created: 4 October 1993

Are E-Mail messages sent from a client to the message server, and then from
the message server to the recipient client, encrypted using ASDSP? How is
the mutual authentication between clients handled?

In a server-based environment, all communication between client and server
is encrypted using ASDSP. If it's a server-less environment, there is no
authentication or ASDSP. If the mail is being sent using Direct AppleTalk
Mail, the message will not be encrypted, even if there is a server on the
network. If two PowerTalk systems want to send messages between each other
from within an application, that can be encrypted or not, depending on
whether the application knows to call ASDSP instead of ADSP.