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Re: Purchases
From: "Paul Melson" <pmelson () gmail com>
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 09:49:38 -0400
-----Original Message----- Subject: [Dailydave] Purchases
You know what would be a good purchase by Microsoft? PGP. There's really
no easier way
to do email encryption. I think the genius is that it's P2P rather than
set up by some
corporate IT center. MS should build it into their solutions so everyone
can use it -
and as a side benefit, it'd cripple the spammers.
P2P encryption creates some serious problems for med/large companies, enough so as to actually keep companies from purchasing or even deploying it widely. Here's why: 1. Point-to-point encryption undoes all of the expensive, scalable security that companies have deployed in their server rooms. No more ClamAV/Sendmail proxy or NAV on the Exchange server. No more Postini or MXLogic. No more Ciphertrust or Tumbleweed. They'd be reduced to expensive points of failure. 2. It also prevents compliance monitoring. HIPAA, GLB, and other laws and regulations require that companies take measures to prevent disclosure of certain types of information. Encrypted e-mail that cannot be monitored by the company is a big fiscal and PR (which is again fiscal) risk. 3. It won't stop spam. In order for P2P email encryption to actually stop spam, the end user must know who they will communicate with via e-mail. For many employees this impossible by definition. If some random person can retrieve your public key and send you a message and you can retrieve their public key and decrypt their message without any heavy lifting, then there's nothing to prevent spam. Or viruses and malware. Which now have a bulletproof means of making it to the target's inbox. PaulM _______________________________________________ Dailydave mailing list Dailydave () lists immunitysec com http://lists.immunitysec.com/mailman/listinfo/dailydave
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