Joey Kelly wrote:
> Ok, quick tutorial:
>
> Email is sent in plain-text, and no one can really be sure of the authenticity
> of the message (perhaps it's spoofed, or has been tampered with, etc.). PGP
> (Pretty Good Privacy) enables you to SIGN and possibly ENCRYPT your outgoing
> mail. Someone can be reasonably sure that mail that you signed before you
> sent it is indeed authentic if the digital signature checks out.
> Incidentally, digital sigs have been legally accepted in the US for the last
> few years... a digital signature can be taken to be equivalent to a literal
> hand signature on regular paper.
>
> Anyhow, there are various implementations of PGP. The one we generally use is
> GPG, as it is free software and is generally free of bugs, etc. I think
> Mozilla/Firefox uses a plugin to do PGP, but I've never used it.
Yes, it's called Enigmail, and available at
http://enigmail.mozdev.org/
> You need a PGP-capable mail client to send signed or encrypted mail, and to
> receive and successfully verify signed mail, and decrypt it if it's been
> encrypted.
>
> Is there a setting on Lookout 2003 that lets you do PGP? Maybe someone else
> can shed light on that.
>
You need a plugin there too. Have a look at
http://trilug.org/~chrish/gpg-outlook.php
http://www3.gdata.de/gpg/download.html
Kevin
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