Encrypting Email

Peter Bonivart peter at UCGBOOK.COM
Tue May 13 22:29:44 IST 2003


You should look into the TLS protocol. It uses SSL for encryption
between domains without any user intervention. PGP is not well suited
for domain-domain encryption.

/Peter Bonivart

--Unix lovers do it in the Sun

On Mon, 2003-05-12 at 20:19, Mike Kercher wrote:
> The objective is to have forms submitted via https encrypted.  Client to client
> is easy using PGP or similar on the Win desktops.
>
> Mike
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: MailScanner mailing list
> > [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Ernest W. Lessenger
> > Sent: Monday, May 12, 2003 12:40 PM
> > To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > Subject: Re: Encrypting Email
> >
> >
> > At 12:30 PM 5/12/2003 -0500, you wrote:
> > >I only need to do this for a few email accounts and it has
> > to do with
> > >HIPAA compliance.  I'm not even sure yet whether or not it will be a
> > >requirement, but I want to be prepared.
> >
> > What email client do the users have? It would probably be
> > fairly simple to write a rule that will check to ensure that
> > the data is encrypted (look for the proper attachment/mime
> > type) as it leaves. You would have to install a client on
> > each machine (PGP 8.0 or Outlook), but that's probably the
> > way this should be done regardless.
> >
> > --Ernest W. Lessenger
> > OACYS Technology
> >



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