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Re: Encrypted Mail


From: "Akbar Ali" <tzu () plepstudios com>
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2003 12:33:11 -0700

www.hushmail.com

It's via a web interface so it's really handy.


-akbara
;mysite: http://vertexabuse.cjb.net.


----- Original Message -----
From: "chort" <chort () amaunetsgothique com>
To: "Ronish Mehta" <sf_mail_sbm () yahoo com>
Cc: <security-basics () securityfocus com>
Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 8:37 AM
Subject: Re: Encrypted Mail


On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 01:05, Ronish Mehta wrote:
Hi there,
I'm looking for a solution to encrypt my mails and to
ensure that they have not been tampered with.

VeriSign offers such a solution through its Go Secure
solution

I'm looking for solution that are easy to deploy from
clients perspective

(a) Anyone already using GOSecure, and any comments
about it (if this is allowed on the list..)

(b) Any other products that you are using out there
(commercial or freeware)

(c) Any security flaws in using solutions for mail
encyption

Thanks

P.S. I;m using Exchange server 5.5 currently, will
migrate to Exchange 2000 soon...

It depends what your requirements are.  Must the solution be at the
client level (which ensures end-to-end encryption, but can be a
nightmare to support) or is your requirement to encrypted messages
across the Internet cloud (in which case a gateway encryption solution
would work)?

For clients, PGP/GPG is pretty much the standard.  If gateway-to-gateway
encryption will satisfy your requirements, there are several vendors out
there who offer gateway solutions.  They would be a lot less work to
setup and support.  CipherTrust (www.ciphertrust.com) offers a secure
gateway solutions that does S/MIME, PGP, and TLS for gateway to gateway
encryption.  It also has a https staging server to hold e-mail which
couldn't be sent securely, so the recipient can log in and view the
e-mail over an encrypted connection.  Several other vendors have
functionally similar products.

--
Brian Keefer


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