[ale] SMTP and PGP mail

[bob at verysecurelinux.com (Bob Toxen)]

On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 08:12:17AM -0500, Oysgelt, ?Moisey G [IBM Contractor for Sprint] wrote:
> Does anyone have experience to create and send PGP encrypted e-mail via
> send mail or other Linux mail servers? 
Yes.

Normally an individual user will use one of the many PGP-capable
Mail User Agents (MUAs), such as Netscrape, mutt, various Winbloz
free products, etc. to encrypt with the recipient's public key.
Then the recipient decrypts with a MUA.

This protects even against the mail server's evil SysAdmin from spying.

> Is there any  sample scripts to this. Is it robust or really slow? 
Sendmail and similar can use the SMTP standard to encrypt from server
to server.

A third alternative, useful for the various physical offices of an
organization is to set up a VPN between the offices.



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