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Re: Encrypted emails


From: "Eric McCarty" <eric () piteduncan com>
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 10:43:09 -0800

There are a couple of ways I have seen.

1). Key Exchange using PGP for example
2). SSL Based Mail Apps, Think hotmail/gmail but private using SSL


There is no simple answer, but I highly recommend the use key exchange
as it is probably the easiest to manage. 

Eric 

On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 13:29 -0800, John Madden wrote:
Hi,

Looking at the potential deployment and solutions for
encrypted emails i had a few questions.

What do large organization do to ensure that email are
securely transfered with a partner/customer for
sensitive data ?

Using public/private keys seems like a whole lot of
problems...

- How do you exchange keys ? Manually ? This might be
ok for a couple of recipient but can you imagine
hundreds/thousunds at different companies...

- PKI, having to deal with the infrastructure could be
a nightmare.

- Employees learning curve....

Are companies using an encryption software that will
encrypt the messages/attachments and transmit the
password to decrypt by phone ?

I would like your comments/suggestions.

Thanks

John


      
              
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