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Re: Secure e-mail
From: Johan De Meersman <johan () ops skynet be>
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 13:17:44 +0100
Trevor Cushen wrote:
"You can encrypt your messages with PGP products (absolutely free)" If you look at the end of your own email you will see it is free for non-commercial use only. If you sent the email from your work PC then it is installed on a commercially used machine and you are in breach of the license, not sure how it works for educational institutes, they may be classed as non-commercial, but now for all software. It is however quite cheap compared with most solutions.
GnuPG, on the other hand, is entirely free (both as in speech and beer), and is for most, if not all, practical purposes fully compatible and interchangeable. However, I believe that such was not the original question - I think that was more meant along the lines of 'secure applications'. One could, for that purpose, consider VPNs, webmail over HTTPS, textmode (pine, mutt, ...) or X11 applications over an SSH-tunnel, or possibly local clients interfacing with the server over either secure versions of smtp, pop and/or imap or regular versions pulled through an ssl-wrapper or ssh-tunnel. What a lovely sentence :) Johan -- Public GPG key at blackhole.pca.dfn.de .
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