RE: Email Encryption Between Servers

["Dr. S. A. Vetha Manickam" <avmanickam () yahoo com>]

Hi,

Even though IPSec enabled communication between two mail servers, there are some PKI
based solutions called Secure Email Gateway from Baltimore, which just meets your
requirements. There may be some more products  from other PKI vendors.


--- Michael Leigh <mleigh () austin rr com> wrote:
> I think the easiest way to do this would be with IPSEC tunnels, between
> either your firewalls, routers or mail servers explicitly.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Al Cooper [mailto:alc () 2wh com]
> Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 9:44 AM
> To: security-basics () securityfocus com
> Subject: Email Encryption Between Servers
>
>
> 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.
>
> Thanks for your help,
>
>
>
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