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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