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To: Senator949 who wrote (2262)5/19/1999 8:54:00 PM
From: caly   of 3086
 
Compliments of CNet...

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Picking a package

But there's a catch: there are currently no industry standards in place to ensure that different encryption programs can communicate with one another. The two most widely used protocols are S/MIME from RSA Data Security and OpenPGP from Pretty Good Privacy. If you encrypt a message with one protocol, the recipient must use a package that relies on the same protocol.

Below is a chart listing some of the most popular public-key encryption programs and encryption/email hybrids, along with the protocols they use.

Encryption software Protocol

Baltimore Technologies' MailSecure S/MIME
Microsoft Outlook/Outlook Express S/MIME
Netscape Messenger S/MIME
OpenSoft ExpressMail S/MIME
PGP OpenPGP
PGP plug-ins for Eudora, Microsoft
Exchange, or Microsoft Outlook OpenPGP

Is this a mess? Yes. Until the standards tangle gets sorted out, we're recommending PGP for two reasons:

1. PGP is the most widely used encryption software today.
2. You can use PGP with whatever email package you have. If you're using Outlook Express, for example, you can skip the built-in S/MIME encryption and use PGP to code your messages.


To see what other companies might be in the e-mail encryption market, here's a quick place to check:

dir.yahoo.com
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