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
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