MBOX-Line: From arnt at gulbrandsen.priv.no  Thu Nov  3 03:53:19 2005
To: imap-protocol@u.washington.edu
From: Arnt Gulbrandsen <arnt@gulbrandsen.priv.no>
Date: Fri Jun  8 12:34:36 2018
Subject: [Imap-protocol] username/password
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Dave Cridland writes:
> On Thu Nov  3 07:33:12 2005, Harald Hannelius wrote:
>> The reason for this radical decision to decrease security is mobile 
>> phones. It's quite expensive to do SSL on a mobile phone 
>> (batterywise).
>
> I keep hearing this rumour, but it's confusing on two counts:

It makes perfect sense if you think HTTP, not IMAP.

Think about short-lived HTTP-like connections and imperfect session 
caching. Lots of connections being opened, lots of number crunching and 
transmission for each connection establishment.

Arnt

