Except that none of our clients have heard about PGP. That's one of the problems with HIPPA, the solutions they want don't exist for a device that was developed back in the 60's (I think I got the time right, I'm not going to check though). It's the same problem you have with cars today. Gasoline engines produce pollution, so to change this we could move to hydrogen engines which are pollution free. But the infrastructure isn't there. Same thing with e-mail and encryption. That's one of the reasons HIPPA deadlines keeps getting pushed back.
Then with a solution like PGP you have to teach the users how to use it. That's a nightmare that I don't ever want to repeat again. Hell half of the users I taught have a hard time figuring out what the "start button" is, and it's right there in front of their face. The big problem with HIPPA was that it was designed by bureaucrats (who BTW were probably the same users that have a hard time with the start button thing) that wanted to do something to protect the people that vote for them. Except there wasn't a major problem to begin with. Sure there were a few slight mishaps here and there, but the industry was doing a fine job of learning from those mistakes and creating new solutions to prevent those from happening again. In addition to the design problems with HIPPA, you have the fact that it's become so bloated that no one knows exactly what it is or what you need to do. While you run into some so called "HIPPA expert" that says you need to do one thing, you can always find another that says you don't need to do that. Flat out HIPPA needs to go, and be replaced by something that's a little more well thought out. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Erik Sojka Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 1:25 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Exchange server level encryption Yup. But PGP is one of the most widely deployed encryption packages and has software for various client and server packages. > -----Original Message----- > From: Erick Thompson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 4:19 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: Re: Exchange server level encryption > > > Doesn't PGP suffer from the same problem, where the > recipients need to have > a PGP key set up? > > Erick > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ken Cornetet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 12:38 PM > Subject: RE: Exchange server level encryption > > > I'll assume you are talking about SMIME encryption here. What you want > to do is not possible in the general sense. You need the recipient's > public key in order to encrypt their mail. You would have to have a > predefined list of all possible recipients and their public keys. Even > if you had this list, I know of no products that implement this (but > then again, I've never looked) > > You could probably rig something up using PGP on a unix box as an > outbound gateway. But then all your recipients would need PGP to read > the mail. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Hutchins, Mike [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 3:25 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: Exchange server level encryption > > > Ok, my eyes are going crossed. > I have been trying to figure out a decent way to encrypt all outbound > email from our company. This is for compliance with HIPAA. Does anyone > happen to have any ideas? > > I have googled and haven't found a product that looks right. I have > searched for "exchange 2000 encryption", "email encryption", etc. > Help? > > TIA > > Mike > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
