At 10:03 AM 5/25/2007, Edward R Kryda wrote:
>John Valenti writes: 
>>Rick, 
>>MSU's central email system has used encryption since the re-design of  a few years ago. POP, IMAP and the web interface all use encrypted  
>>connections. 
>>The mail isn't encrypted on the mail servers, maybe that is what you  are asking about?   I haven't seen a big need for that, at least in  our department. 
>>Perhaps this would be a good reason to suggest not forwarding email  to another system (or to keep all participants within mail.msu.edu). 
>>-John
>>LIR 
>
>I'm not aware of any e-mail systems encrypting locally stored e-mail messages. I know that Google doesn't from our presentation this week. Its true that we can transmit data to mail.msu.edu encrypted, and as you pointed out the weak point is the e-mail to e-mail server connections. 
>It sounds like someone would like a PKI, public key infrastructure, for encrypting individual messages. Implementing a PKI for campus would be a large project to undertake. 
>-Ed 

If MSU is going to outsource its e-mail, maybe that should be part of the project.  

John Gorentz