Re: Help setting up secure e-mail

From: Jeremy Bishop (requiem@org.praetor)
Date: 01/25/02

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    From: Jeremy Bishop <requiem@org.praetor>
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 02:10:36 -0800

    Malok spake thus:

    > I am working overseas in a country that likes to monitor e-mail
    > traffic and they operate the only ISP here. I have my own domain name
    > which is hosted in the US. Is there any easy way to setup a secure
    > connection between my computer and my domain so that I can send and
    > receive e-mail without it being available to the ISP?

    Encryption is your friend. OTOH, if your country is truly interested
    in your mail, they may go after your for using crypto.

    You can:

    1) Persuade everyone you communicate with to use PGP.
    2) Use ssh to connect to a US computer and send/read mail from it.
    3) Use hushmail.
    4) Random other options.

    For you, I suggest 3, with 4 in a close second. 

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