Re: Secure email
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to write a .cgi that will take the content of an https GET or POST and send it securely as email to an Outlook client. I think that OpenSSL is somewhere in this, but I'm not even sure how to create the right certificate, how to use it to encrypt mail and how to install a certificate in Outlook (= 2000). Code snippets and pointers to tutorials greatly appreciated. I've got a week to deploy this! I think you want this more common approach for mail encryption: server: https CGI form -- mail wrapper -- PGP encryption/signing -- send client: recieve mail -- pgp decryption/verification -- read All parts are trivial except for pgp but you could get more information at http://www.openpgp.org/ -- mph -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Secure email
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to write a .cgi that will take the content of an https GET or POST and send it securely as email to an Outlook client. I think that OpenSSL is somewhere in this, but I'm not even sure how to create the right certificate, how to use it to encrypt mail and how to install a certificate in Outlook (= 2000). M2Crypto which wraps OpenSSL libs could be an option for sending S/MIME e-mails: http://sandbox.rulemaker.net/ngps/m2/ Ciao, Michael. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Secure email
Martin P. Hellwig wrote: I think you want this more common approach for mail encryption: server: https CGI form -- mail wrapper -- PGP encryption/signing -- send client: recieve mail -- pgp decryption/verification -- read This would require an additional PGP-plugin for Outlook. Outlook can decrypt S/MIME messages out-of-the-box. Ciao, Michael. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Secure email
Michael Ströder wrote: Martin P. Hellwig wrote: I think you want this more common approach for mail encryption: server: https CGI form -- mail wrapper -- PGP encryption/signing -- send client: recieve mail -- pgp decryption/verification -- read This would require an additional PGP-plugin for Outlook. Outlook can decrypt S/MIME messages out-of-the-box. Ciao, Michael. Yes indeed, although I personaly find pgp a bit more elegant your solution would be the best for the OP. -- mph -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Secure email
Martin P. Hellwig wrote: Michael Ströder wrote: Martin P. Hellwig wrote: I think you want this more common approach for mail encryption: server: https CGI form -- mail wrapper -- PGP encryption/signing -- send client: recieve mail -- pgp decryption/verification -- read This would require an additional PGP-plugin for Outlook. Outlook can decrypt S/MIME messages out-of-the-box. Yes indeed, although I personaly find pgp a bit more elegant your solution would be the best for the OP. Whether S/MIME or PGP is used depends very much on the security policy the application has to comply with and the rest of the system environment we both know very little about. Therefore I can't see what's more elegant with PGP in general and how you can tell what the best solution is for the original poster. Ciao, Michael. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Secure email
Michael Ströder wrote: cut This would require an additional PGP-plugin for Outlook. Outlook can decrypt S/MIME messages out-of-the-box. Yes indeed, although I personaly find pgp a bit more elegant your solution would be the best for the OP. cut Whether S/MIME or PGP is used depends very much on the security policy the application has to comply with and the rest of the system environment we both know very little about. Therefore I can't see what's more elegant with PGP in general and how you can tell what the best solution is for the original poster. cut Not general, personal in the sence of my own opinion just like I have it wrote it. Best for the OP because as you pointed out there was a written (although older) howto for s/mime which the OP could follow (as he requested), howto's for PGP icw Python is a bit rare, although I haven't googled for long. -- mph -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Secure email
I need to write a .cgi that will take the content of an https GET or POST and send it securely as email to an Outlook client. I think that OpenSSL is somewhere in this, but I'm not even sure how to create the right certificate, how to use it to encrypt mail and how to install a certificate in Outlook (= 2000). Code snippets and pointers to tutorials greatly appreciated. I've got a week to deploy this! Thanks! Dave LeBlanc Seattle, WA USA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Secure email
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I need to write a .cgi that will take the content of an https GET or POST and send it securely as email to an Outlook client. You're asking how to make S/MIME messages? This isn't really the right newsgroup. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Secure email
Paul Rubin wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I need to write a .cgi that will take the content of an https GET or POST and send it securely as email to an Outlook client. You're asking how to make S/MIME messages? This isn't really the right newsgroup. Well, perhaps it bears saying explicitly that I want to use python and python libraries to write the .cgi script. If there's a better newsgroup, would you please tell me? Dave LeBlanc Seattle, WA USA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
