Because PGP/GPG isn't ubiquitous, I don't think that it's the correct choice for this type of deployment.
Most modern mail clients (all the corporate ones, plus most of the third party personal ones) support S/MIME natively, whereas few support PGP natively (neither Outlook nor Outlook Express do). That alone makes PGP/GPG a less desirable option in my opinion. Roger -------------------------------------------------------------- Roger D. Seielstad - MTS MCSE MS-MVP Sr. Systems Administrator Inovis Inc. > -----Original Message----- > From: Dickenson, Steven [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 3:34 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: PGP and Outlook encryption. > > > Are we talking end-to-end encryption, or transport encryption? > > For the former, PGP, and it's open-source sibling GPG are > rather widely > adopted in the technical community, but I'm not sure how the > average medical > claims handler would deal with it. Depending on how you have > it setup, each > person you communicate with would need to have your public key to > decrypt/read email sent to them. Additionally, they would > need their own > key to send you encrypted mail, and again, you would need > their public key > to read it. However, once you decide on the mechanics, > integrating it with > Outlook should be simple. There are several free Outlook > plugins for GPG. > www.gnupg.org. > > For the latter, I'd look into implementing TLS. > > Steven > --- > Steven Dickenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Network Administrator > The Key School, Annapolis Maryland > > -----Original Message----- > From: Pfefferkorn, Pete (pfeffepe) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 3:15 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: PGP and Outlook encryption. > > > Off topic Question. > > Exchange 5.5 We have a request from our Medical College for > Encryption of > e-mail both inside and outside of Exchange. It's basically > due to Hipa > requirements. We have KMS available and I could issue tokens > for internal > encryption, but I don't think that is a good solution since they need > external encryption as well. They are looking to use the > outlook client and > I was wondering what other recommendations we can give them > for using PGP > encryption on client side. > > Pete Pfefferkorn > Senior Systems Engineer/Mail Administrator > University of Cincinnati > 51 Goodman Street > Cincinnati, OH 45221 > Phone - (513) 556-9076 > Fax - (513) 556-2042 > > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Web Interface: > http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&t ext_mode=&lang =english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with. _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&; lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with. _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with.
