RE: Encrypted emails

From: Locher Thomas (Thomas.Locher_at_swarovski.com)
Date: 03/11/05

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    To: 'Vinay Patel' <vin1414@gmail.com>, "'security-basics@securityfocus.com'" <security-basics@securityfocus.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 09:09:33 +0100

    On a presentation i heard something about an appliance that encrytps mails
    on the gateway. Maybe this would be an option...

    http://www.pgp.com/products/universal/index.html

    -----Original Message-----
    From: Vinay Patel [mailto:vin1414@gmail.com]
    Sent: Donnerstag, 10. Marz 2005 22:02
    To: security-basics@securityfocus.com
    Subject: Re: Encrypted emails

    John,

    Depending on the size of the organization, developing a PKI
    infrastructure should not be an unmanageable "nightmare".

    From a deployment perspective, once you have established the key
    components of a PKI, user enrollment and certificate management would
    be a trivial challenge, especially using the tools provided by several
    commercial vendors.

    Using PKI, Integration of digital signature and encryption with
    traditional email clients is well tested. If you have a new
    partner/customer, a trust relationship needs to be setup only between
    the root CAs, hence, the users would never need to configure any
    additional keys or trusts.

    On the downside of PKI is cost (assuming use of Commercial) and some
    learning curve of the product, although the latter affects only the
    administrator and not the users.

    -V

    On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 13:29:35 -0800 (PST), John Madden
    <chiwawa999@yahoo.com> wrote:
    > Hi,
    >
    > Looking at the potential deployment and solutions for
    > encrypted emails i had a few questions.
    >
    > What do large organization do to ensure that email are
    > securely transfered with a partner/customer for
    > sensitive data ?
    >
    > Using public/private keys seems like a whole lot of
    > problems...
    >
    > - How do you exchange keys ? Manually ? This might be
    > ok for a couple of recipient but can you imagine
    > hundreds/thousunds at different companies...
    >
    > - PKI, having to deal with the infrastructure could be
    > a nightmare.
    >
    > - Employees learning curve....
    >
    > Are companies using an encryption software that will
    > encrypt the messages/attachments and transmit the
    > password to decrypt by phone ?
    >
    > I would like your comments/suggestions.
    >
    > Thanks
    >
    > John
    >
    >
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