http://securitymusings.com/article/8/fear-of-secure-email Rants and raves from information security professionals Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:03:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://securitymusings.com/article/8/fear-of-secure-email/comment-page-1#comment-1 The Doctor Wed, 03 May 2006 23:12:19 +0000 http://securitymusings.com/article/8/fear-of-secure-email#comment-1 <p>A lot of people still have the impression that encrypted e-mail has to be a big song-and-dance, which it used to be with PGP back in the days of DOS. There are now plugins for most every mail client on many operating systems (yes, even Windows) that transparently encrypt and decrypt mail. Trying to convince people that it can be as easy as clicking ‘send’ and typing a passphrase is like pulling teeth. Trying to convince people that their e-mail should be encrypted (for example, marketing folks on the road will send very sensitive things in unencrypted e-mail.. over an insecure wireless connection, no less).</p> A lot of people still have the impression that encrypted e-mail has to be a big song-and-dance, which it used to be with PGP back in the days of DOS. There are now plugins for most every mail client on many operating systems (yes, even Windows) that transparently encrypt and decrypt mail. Trying to convince people that it can be as easy as clicking ‘send’ and typing a passphrase is like pulling teeth. Trying to convince people that their e-mail should be encrypted (for example, marketing folks on the road will send very sensitive things in unencrypted e-mail.. over an insecure wireless connection, no less).

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