[51060] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Corporate PGP for network operators
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Len Sassaman)
Mon Aug 19 19:19:39 2002
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 16:17:53 -0700 (PDT)
From: Len Sassaman <rabbi@quickie.net>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.40.0205171637030.2333-100000@clifden.donelan.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Fri, 17 May 2002, Sean Donelan wrote:
> Ok, extremely dumb question. But I'm sure lots of other people have
> already solved this one.
>
> Network operators have been using various PGPs to exchange confidential
> information for many years. I have my own personal PGP key for my own
> use and a nice Unix box of my own. There are licensed versions, freeware
> versions, guerilla versions, and so forth. NAI is no longer selling a
> commercial version of PGP Desktop for Microsoft Windows/NT. Phil Zimmerman
> points people to the OpenPGP alliance http://openpgp.org/members/
>
> What do commercial network operators, who are required to use Microsoft,
> use for business PGP mail besides NAI? I.E. if we need to exchange PGP
> mail, what package is least likely to crash Outlook and Windows.
Three months later, here's a useful answer for you, Sean:
http://www.pgp.com
(NAI has sold off most of the product line to a new startup.)
--Len.
