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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


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