Re: [PCTECH] Mail encryption / security?

[Mike Wills <koldark@xxxxxxxxx>]

What do you use for Outlook? I haven't been able to find anything that 
really works well.

On Feb 24, 2005 10:41 AM, Walden H. Leverich <WaldenL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:
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> I trade e-mails with a hospital on a regular basis and those e-mails
> are typically signed, though not encrypted.
> 
> Certainly anything I do with CERT is signed, and I've verified their
> PGP key by calling, but they have a very well developed process for
> key management.
> 
> Finally, we've deployed PGP for a couple of clients that wanted to
> send confidential information -- payroll, health benefits, etc. --
> via e-mail to a trading partner.
> 
> Overall, I'd say it's used by those that really need it, but how many
> of us really need PGP-level encryption? Then again, see my midrange-l
> post about passwords. <G>
> 
> BTW, if you need to drop to a command line I can see why you think
> PGP is a lot of work. For me in Outlook decryption/validation occurs
> automatically and encryption/signing is as simple as selection an
> icon on the toolbar, identical to what you'd do to send e-mail w/high
> importance.
> 
> - -Walden
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> [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David Gibbs
> Sent: Wednesday, 23 February, 2005 23:23
> To: PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users
> Subject: Re: [PCTECH] Mail encryption / security?
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> *** Signed: 2/23/05 11:23:18 PM
> *** Verified: 2/24/05 10:35:53 AM
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> Walden H. Leverich wrote:
> | You must still be playing with OpenPGP because you signed the
> | message.
> 
> Yep :)
> 
> | And I must be using PGP because when I opened the message it
> | automatically verified the signature (well, ok, it told be it was a
> | valid signature from an unknown key)
> 
> Same here ...
> 
> Unverified signature
> 
> gpg command line and output:
> C:\\GnuPG\\gpg.exe --charset utf8 --batch --no-tty --status-fd 2 -d
> gpg: Signature made 02/21/05 10:44:00 Central Standard Time using DSA
> key ID A2AA12EF
> gpg: Can't check signature: public key not found
> 
> | I've not used OpenPGP so I can't speak for it's interface, but I
> | use PGP and we've deployed it for clients and it's seamless, at
> | least
> | from w/in outlook. What have you found to be too much trouble
> | w/OpenPGP?
> 
> Mainly keeping track of the keys ... 'course that could be laziness
> on
> my part.
> 
> Not many people I correspond with actually use it secure email. I'm
> mainly curious if it's very prevalent outside of my circles.
> 
> david
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