Michael, In order to read encrypted email a user would have to be able to access his private key. Exchange has no support for storing private keys so you could not store it on the server. The only option is to store the key client side. If your users are using OWA then chances are they are not using one computer. This means you would have to store his private key on a smart card or token and hope the computer he wants to read his email on has a reader for a smart card / token....which isn't very likely here in the US. Europe is MUCH farther ahead in that arena.
I am not aware of any web based email solutions that support S/MIME, mainly because of this key storage issue. Cheers, Christopher Harrington, CISSP Director of Technology CertCo, Inc. 617-503-0419 -----Original Message----- From: Dante Mercurio [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 12:00 PM To: Michael Dana-TM; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Outlook Web Access w/PKI Outlook Web Access does not support S/MIME. Here's a link to a good comparison document from MS: http://www.microsoft.com/office/outlook/evaluation/compare.doc Good Luck, M. Dante Mercurio, CCNA, MCSE+I, CCSA Consulting Services Manager Continental Consulting Group, LLC www.ccgsecurity.com <http://www.ccgsecurity.com> [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Dana-TM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 2:49 AM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: Outlook Web Access w/PKI > > > Does anyone know of any way to enable S/MIME in Outlook Web > Access (OWA)? I'm working on implementing signed/encrypted > e-mail in my environment, but it's going to be somewhat > useless if some of the users can't read an encrypted e-mail > when they logon through OWA. Or perhaps overly useful, > depending on how you look at it. :) > > Anyway, I'm sure some of you have come across this, was there > any sort of solution? > > Thanks, > Michael Dana >
