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Re: Encrypted emails
From: Nathaniel Hall <halln () otc edu>
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 11:48:58 -0600
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 tod wrote: | I have a similar problem. I need to identify a secure | solution which numerous contractors can use to | communcate with each other and with my org on a | project for the next 2 years. | | Many contractors organizations don't support secure | mail, or use yahoo (like me!) and the admins wouldn't | set up PKI in any reasonable time frame. | | I'm looking for something like a shared single key | encryption solution that the vendors could all use. | | | --- John Madden <chiwawa999 () yahoo com> 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 |> |> |> |> |>__________________________________ |>Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday! |>Yahoo! Netrospective: 100 Moments of the Web |>http://birthday.yahoo.com/netrospective/ |> | | | | | __________________________________ | Do you Yahoo!? | Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! | http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/ | At the very least, there is a program call MySecret.exe. It allows you to encrypt/decrypt files or text from the clipboard using a password. I just noticed there is a gui version available at the same site, but I have not used it. Here is the site: http://www.di-mgt.com.au/cryptoMySecret.html You might give it a try for what you need. - -- Nathaniel Hall, GSEC Intrusion Detection and Firewall Technician Ozarks Technical Community College -- Office of Computer Networking halln () otc edu 417-447-7535 GPG Public Key ID: 0xAC187312 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (MingW32) iD8DBQFCNc6Kc+QrUawYcxIRAnhlAJ9XA5Kl6zzjyFIagjLNYbDBDwtwOQCfWvv5 aLyIpbhQVkO+ZamWPCAtaGM= =vLFr -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Current thread:
- Encrypted emails John Madden (Mar 10)
- Re: Encrypted emails Kinnell (Mar 10)
- Re: Encrypted emails Zachary Mutrux (Mar 10)
- Re: Encrypted emails Vinay Patel (Mar 10)
- RE: Encrypted emails Craig Searle (Mar 11)
- Re: Encrypted emails Derek Nash (Mar 11)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Encrypted emails Eric McCarty (Mar 10)
- RE: Encrypted emails Locher Thomas (Mar 11)
- Re: Encrypted emails tod (Mar 11)
- RE: Encrypted emails dave kleiman (Mar 14)
- Re: Encrypted emails Nathaniel Hall (Mar 14)
- RE: Encrypted emails Dr. S. A. Vetha Manickam (Mar 14)