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Re: Full strength Email Clients.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Stewart)
Wed Feb 5 12:44:07 1997
Date: Tue, 04 Feb 1997 23:58:43 -0800
To: sherod@medeserv.com.au
From: Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: <32F6F269.4690@medeserv.com.au>
At 06:25 PM 2/4/97 +1000, Steven Herod wrote:
>Hello, I'm in search of an *EASY TO USE* Internet Email client
>software that uses full strength (outside US export restriction)
> RSA encryption.
There's one widely accepted full-strength encryption format, PGP,
available world-wide. There are a variety of front-end programs
that may make it integrate nicely with mail packages, though
availability outside the US is more random. I like Private Idaho,
which has a lot of features, but some like PGPclip are dirt simple
(on Windows, highlight© your data to the Clipboard,
tell PGPclip to encrypt or decrypt, and paste it back from the
clipboard into your document - a no-brainer.)
You can find them on ftp.ox.ac.uk/pub/crypto,
or in the ftp.pgp.net cloud of servers.
Key management is always a bit more work, but the easy way to do
that for an environment such as yours is to just have the
organization that's coordinating it all sign keys for
everybody, maintain a master list of keys, and send it out
periodically.
# Thanks; Bill
# Bill Stewart, +1-415-442-2215 stewarts@ix.netcom.com
# You can get PGP outside the US at ftp.ox.ac.uk/pub/crypto/pgp
# (If this is a mailing list, please Cc: me on replies. Thanks.)
