Re: Virus Checking Encrypted Email - Exchange & AD

From: Brian Komar (bkomar_at_nospam.identit.ca)
Date: 05/29/05 

Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 17:55:52 -0500

In article <1117147956.438335.290010@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
ian@expandableit.co.uk says...
> I am amazed at that, thats like a whole big feature practically unused
> then because emails that are encrypted either need some third party or
> some clever gateway...I would have thought that since the Exchange
> server (being the AD authorised Email server) would have been able to
> decrypt message sent to someone in the AD it serves. Even if the Admin
> didnt have that low level acces I would have though AD / Exchange could
> have been granted it.
>
> Thats Nuts
>
> BTW- thanks for the Reply Brian
>
>
That does not follow the RFC. The email encryption/decryption only
takes place on the email client. The email server, to be blunt, is quite
dumb. It just delivers the mail to the appropriate server when sending
and to the appropriate mailbox when receiving.

Brian 

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