[nycphp-talk] OT: Pros and cons of PGP Desktop software for email encryption....
Rolan Yang
rolan at omnistep.com
Thu Jul 8 01:33:55 EDT 2004
Fee, Patrick J (US SSA) wrote:
>Estemmed list memebers,
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>I need your help. Once again I have been toosed into the deep end of an issue that is new to me. WHile I enjoy learning new things... and explaining things to others is a great way to understand it yourself ... I need to turn to my professional brethren (and sistern?) to fill in the gaps.
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>A property law firm I support has been approached by one of their professional organizations to buy into PGP's Desktop software to encrypt emails. Certain lending institutions (e.g.:Wells Fargo)are starting to require encrypted email correspondence.
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I use Thunderbird and Enigmail (the GPG extension). It works well. You
might want to
verify the compatibility of GPG with PGP Desktop 8.x I had an issue
with incomptibility
between GPG and PGP's Universal Server (encryption proxy appliance).
Read up on stuff at http://forums.pgpsupport.com/
If you can get away with SMIME key's, Thawte's free email certs are easy
to use.
~Rolan
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