> -----Original Message----- > From: Christopher Morrow [mailto:morrowc.li...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2011 11:36 AM > To: Jay Ashworth > Cc: NANOG > Subject: Re: [outages] News item: Blackberry services down worldwide > > On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Jay Ashworth <j...@baylink.com> wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > >> From: "Jamie Bowden" <ja...@photon.com> > > > >> Someday either Google or Apple will get > >> off their rear ends and roll out an end to end encrypted service > that > >> plugs into corporate email/calendar/workgroup services and we can > all > >> gladly toss these horrid little devices in the recycle bins where > they > >> belong. > > > > <plug>I'm fairly sure K-9 does GPG, at least for the email</plug> > > plus normal mail + k9 will do TLS on SMTP and IMAP... or they both do > with my mail server just fine. (idevices seeem to also do this well > enough) > > It's possible that the 'encryption' comment from Jamie is really about > encrypting the actual device... which I believe Android[0] will do, I > don't know if idevices do though.
As of 2.3[.x?] (can't remember if it's a sub release that intro'd this), Android devices can be wholly encrypted, though I don't know if they are by default. All these kludges are great on a small scale, but the BES does end to end encryption for transmission, plugs into Exchange, Lotus, Sametime, proxies internal http[s], and lets us manage policies and push out software updates from a central management point. When it works, it's also scalable, which matters when you have thousands of devices to manage. Jamie