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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