Hey Steve, On 27/07/2007, at 9:45 , Steve Holdoway wrote:
On Fri, 27 Jul 2007 03:04:18 +1200 Raffael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:For a postgrad. research project I would like to investigate the use of open source software for secure communication in a business environment. I am using e.g. GnuPG myself, but I havn't seen the use in a company yet and I would like to learn more about it. I am facing two problems: * I have to find a company which uses GnuPG or an other open source solution for secure communication * I have to find a scientific way to investigate and study this topic Maybe you can help me with the first point.The major problem is that both parties need to be using mail clients that support this technology, and *TO HAVE SET IT UP*, even more so to have correctly set it up! (points to sender (: ) As this requires effort on everyones part to actually implement this, it just plain doesn't work.
Using GnuPG: I know that is difficult when it comes to communication between a company and a client. But at least for internal communication -- members or two offices of a company -- it should be manageable... An other option could at least be signing/verifying messages with X. 509 certificates. This should be supported by the major mail clients out of the box. I hope I didn't misunderstand you on this one ;)
We're looking at ways of simplifying this method, but, as most people use Outlook/Express for mail communications, it's not going to be an open source solution ):
What do you mean exactly with simplifying? And regarding Outlook... well, I can't do anything else than telling the people to use Thunderbird or an alternative client...
Thank you, Raffael
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