Signed Email

[Mark Nishimura]

I do about 80 to 90% of my email encrypted using PGP keys.  I have not
had any issues so far with Outlook clients not being able to read it and
have used it with several different types of mail servers including
exchange.  It is very easy to setup and use.  Also I have found it
extremely reliable and fairly bullet proof.

I also use Thwate and Verisign as public certificates.  My experience is
that Thwate is cheaper.  Support from them is only okay I think
sometimes the time difference to South Africa can be an issue getting
support from them.

-----Original Message-----
From: [hidden email] [mailto:[hidden email]] On
Behalf Of Russell Standish
Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 4:51 PM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Signed Email


I use mutt for my mail client, and GnuPG for signing/encryption. This
works extremely well, and is easy to set up. However, a certain popular
mail client that refuses to grok signed email (I believe it is one of
the Outlook variants) and displays signed email as a blank page, despite
email signing being an internet standard for more than a decade.

As a consequence, I've turned off autosigning for most email lists (some
email lists have a blanket policy on attachments, so refuse signed
emails).

Cheers

On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 08:39:27AM -0600, Owen Densmore wrote:

> I'm considering use of secure email: encrypted/decrypted with public
> key crypto.  Do many folks do this?  I'd be interested to here their  
> experiences.
>
>      -- Owen
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> Owen Densmore - http://backspaces.net - http://redfish.com - http://
> friam.org
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*PS: A number of people ask me about the attachment to my email, which
is of type "application/pgp-signature". Don't worry, it is not a virus.
It is an electronic signature, that may be used to verify this email
came from me if you have PGP or GPG installed. Otherwise, you may safely
ignore this attachment.

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