Re: Email Encryption

[Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers <bugtraq () planetcobalt net>]

On 2005-07-25 Chris Griffin wrote:
> Im trying to gather information on the best route to go with email
> encryption.
> I would just jump at PGP, but there are also Linux machines to be
> involved. I was testing out WinPT/GPG, and that works well, but there
> seem to be periodic glitches.
> Since many of the people that will be involved in sending/recieving
> encrypted company email are not technical, and some offsite, Id like
> something that involved the least support possible.
>
> Does anyone have any recomendations or sugestions?

We made very positive experiences with Thunderbird [1], Enigmail [2] and
GnuPG [3]. Configurations reside in text files in the users' profiles.
As an additional advantage it's cross-platform (runs at least on Linux,
Windows and Mac OS X).

We're using IMAP; I heard of some problems with POP3 and large inboxes
but can't confirm them.

[1] http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/
[2] http://enigmail.mozdev.org/
[3] http://www.gnupg.org/

Regards
Ansgar Wiechers
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