Making email more secure with MTA-STS standard
This article is a disingenuous description of a lot of bad work.  A more honest headline would be &quot;Google making email more complex by introducing more protocols.&quot;  Instead of just registering an SMTP-over-TLS port, now EVERY message requires an HTTPS lookup and a reconnection.  That&#x27;s not the intent, but the specification was so poorly written that it is the most common interpretation.<p>All of the input during the IETF draft phase was completely disregarded unless it came from a sponsoring corporation (all of whom are either Google or residential ISPs).  This whole process is a shameful illustration of IETF process failure and I hope Google terminates it as readily as they do business units.