Re: Email List Encryption - Problem

From: Luc The Perverse (sll_noSpamlicious_z_XXX_m_at_cc.usu.edu)
Date: 11/28/05 

Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 15:43:09 -0700

"Ari Silverstein" <abcarisilversteinn@yahoo.comxyz> wrote in message
news:162pjbgbf3qvb.xty3y7jl7zhh.dlg@40tude.net...
> Scenario:
>
> 1,000 email discussion list users who are trading information regarding
> private health issues in women and children who have been victimized by
> domestic violence. The information does not contain SSN or ID by name
> (HIPAA compliant), each user wants to use their own email address and
> client of choice. Medical, law enforcement, volunteers, emergency room
> personnel, etc are typical users.
>
> The problem is how to encrypt the data from start point to end point
> (Sender to Recipient):
>
> a) *without* installing encryption at the Sender's machine.
> b) with installing encryption at the Sender/Recipient's machine yet the
> program encrypts and decrypts automatically with no user interaction and
> invisibly (to the typical user).
>
> The users have resisted PGP, closed system emailing and any other type of
> active participation, in short, they want security without any appreciable
> effort.
>
> Comments appreciated. Advise going to a non profit.

They have to have some form of authentication - password?

Try an online email system, with encryption just web based.

ActiveX programs will give you this type of functionality on a windows
machine. It is detectable, but it could be made to clean up after itself.
Of course, so could an EXE file 

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