Steve wrote:
Do you mean encryption of an email, or the sending medium - TLS, IMAPS, etc??
Encryption of an email.
Setting up SSL on the transport medium isn't a big thing to do these
days is it?
You do raise an interesting point though...
How do I protect the messages on my IMAP store? How do I keep sys
admins out of my content and still be mobile with something like web mail?
However what I was thinking was more along the lines of...
"I want to send Nick an email that only Nick can read. How do I do it?"
"I want nick to know that the message he got did come from me and wasn't
tampered with along the way. Is that possible".
"thurnderbird has an 'encrypt' button. What do I need to do to make
that button functional".
"What tools are there for sending/receiving email that are easy to use"
eg. Assume different levels of security... As always, I assume the
more 'user friendly' you make things, the less security there is. ie.
If my 'email client' unencrypts a message then stores it as plain text
on my laptop then it's not hard to get the messages by taking my
machine, however the message is still secure in transport.
"What different levels of security are there? 48bit, 128bit? What's
the norm to use at present? What's best practice?"
Does that give you enough info for a presentation Steve? (Hint hint,
nudge, nudge, wink)
Cheers Don
