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>From the E-Government Bulletin.
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MoD STRIKES PRETTY GOOD DEAL
By Phil Cain phil@headstar.com
The UK's Ministry of Defence is "highly likely" to adopt 'Pretty Good
Privacy' (PGP) email encryption for sending documents to external
organisations securely over the Internet, E-Government Bulletin has learned.
'PGP HMG', as the system is known, is a customised version of PGP Security,
a product developed by Network Associates (http://www.nai.com) based on an
algorithm put into the public domain 10 years ago by Phillip Zimmerman. PGP
became hugely popular and gained controversy when it was temporarily banned
for export by the US military.
"We are not talking about James Bond stuff here," said Ray Lepore of the
software's UK distributor Connect Open Systems (http://www.cos.uk.com),
explaining the system will be used only to send only 'restricted' items, the
lowest security classification.
The software became the first to gain official endorsement as a way to
transmit restricted documents when it was approved in May by the
Communications-Electronics Security Group (CE-SG) of the UK
security services (http://www.cesg.gov.uk).
Other government departments said to be thinking of taking up the software
are the Scottish Health Service, the NHS and the Inland Revenue.
Lepore said the adoption of PGP would result in a better and more secure
flow of information between government departments and outside agencies. He
added that it would also be cheaper than fax and traditional mail, the
methods
currently approved for restricted communications.
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