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Re: Email Encryption
From: Tim Doty <tdoty () MST EDU>
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 15:22:55 -0500
On Mon, 2011-07-25 at 15:42 -0400, Valdis Kletnieks wrote:
On Mon, 25 Jul 2011 19:20:42 -0000, "Lang, Matthew" said:Just by way of some background I have worked for two very large financial institutions and neither encrypted every e-mail.Of course, if they *did* encrypt every e-mail, there wouldn't be a need to stick that silly "if you received this message in error" disclaimer on outbound e-mails, because an erroneous recipient couldn't decrypt the message, so no harm, no foul. ;) Just sayin' :)
On the other hand if your client is using automatic encryption based on recipient then your email would still be readable to the actual recipient as it wouldn't be encrypted for the *intended* recipient. ;^) Tim Doty
Current thread:
- Email Encryption Kevin Casey (Jul 25)
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- Re: Email Encryption Matthew Gracie (Jul 25)
- Re: Email Encryption Lang, Matthew (Jul 25)
- Re: Email Encryption Valdis Kletnieks (Jul 25)
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- Re: Email Encryption Valdis Kletnieks (Jul 25)
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