Hello, I am trying to find and easier email encryption solution for end
users than certificate based solutions. What is the most user friendly
email encryption program that anyone knows of? Please let me know what
your experience is with an email encryption solution that requires the
least end user technical ability.
Thanks a lot for your help.
s3kur1ty@gmail.com wrote:
> Hello, I am trying to find and easier email encryption solution for end
> users than certificate based solutions. What is the most user friendly
> email encryption program that anyone knows of? Please let me know what
> your experience is with an email encryption solution that requires the
> least end user technical ability.
>
> Thanks a lot for your help.
>
IMHO, encryption methods of any sort using public/private keys require
at least some understanding and working knowledge on the part of the end
users to make it all work properly.
I think that S/MIME certificates are one of the easiest to use with
email client software that supports them, since the process of
signing/encrypting or verifying/decrypting is done auto-magically by the
client software requiring little user interaction beyond setting it all up.
Other methods such as PGP, or GPG are just as complicated to setup, if
not more so, and in my experience anyway require more user interaction
rather than less. Such methods if automated or semi-automated could be
made just as easy as an S/MIME certificate based solution, but I
wouldn't say they are "easier", just a different solution to the same
problem.
On the server side, you can use SSL to secure the connection between
server to server or client or server, but even that requires both ends
of the connection to support SSL.
Garen