Re: Email List Encryption - Problem

From: Ari Silverstein (abcarisilversteinn_at_yahoo.comxyz)
Date: 11/29/05 

Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 12:57:42 -0500

On 29 Nov 2005 08:54:28 GMT, Juergen Nieveler wrote:

> traveler <noreply@nym.alias.net> wrote:
>
>> The requirement of no user interaction is a hard one, why not just get
>> free thawte certificates for the mail client, it will require the user
>> to click once to invoke the cert, but that shouldn't be to big a deal.
>
> Explaining how to get S/MIME certificates to an ordinary user is quite
> hard... BTDT :-(
>
> If the users could be made to install a software, MAYBE Ciphire would
> be a solution - once installed (and with password entered permanently
> instead of at startup) it would be transparent to the users, and would
> have the desidered security (I wouldn't use it for really secret stuff,
> though).
>
> But if the users demand NO CHANGES at all to their work style or their
> system - forget it, can't be done, end of story.
>
> Juergen Nieveler

traveler, Juergen is right and so are you, certs would be a real
possibility but the support issue for 1,000 non techie docs, policemen, etc
is an issue.

I am looking at Ciphere, thanks for that suggestion and you are correct, I
also see no way to do nothing and get something from it. 

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