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[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,
>
>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.
>
>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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