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Re: Email Encryption Between Servers
From: "Chris Berry" <compjma () hotmail com>
Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 11:25:16 -0800
From: "Al Cooper" <alc () 2wh com> We are attempting to set up secure e-mail with our partner companies to comply with the upcoming HIPAA requirements. I would like to find a way to encrypt all e-mail going between our mail server and our partners. We are using Exchange. Some of our partners are also using Exchange and some are using other SMTP servers. Is there a way to automatically force all e-mail between our two e-mail servers (either Exchange to Exchange or Exchange to SMTP) to be encrypted then decrypted on arrival with no end user intervention? If there are, what affect, if any will these encryption methods have on our overall network security.
I don't use exchange(I prefer qmail, it's more secure), but this should be a simple matter of inserting a call to gpg in your send and recieve scripts. Once you've distributed the your public key, and have theirs, you're all set to go. If you're tied into outlook, there is a plug-in that can do this for you at the user level, but I can't remember the name at the moment.
Chris Berry compjma () hotmail com Systems Administrator JM Associates"Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken." -- Duke Leto Atreides
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