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sim at compulab Jan 29, 2008, 10:28 PM Views: 599 Permalink Re: mail encryption [In reply to] What I am looking for is a way to convince management that someone doing maintenance on the database will not be able to read all their email. They understand the intrinsic insecurity of email. They are just trying to avoid passive intrusion as opposed to active intrusion. One example is that my system admin, without trying to read anybodys email, was trying to learn how the tables work, so he opened the tables in a MySQL viewer and looked at what data was in each table. He wasn't _actively trying_ to read email, but while doing it he did read email. However, the 2 requirements are that they can read the message on the client without having to jump through hoops and that they don't have to tell everyone who sends them a message that they have to send it encrypted. Without those 2 things they are going to stay with regular POP email (not dbmail POP, which still keeps the mails in the database until cleanup, if I understand correctly). James Cloos idea of doing the encryption at the MTA is a great idea that I hadn't thought about. I'm going to investigate the possibility. Sim -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Dbmail] mail encryption From: Dave Logan <davel [at] dsp-services> To: DBMail mailinglist <dbmail [at] dbmail> Date: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 07:08:02 PM > So, I'm just throwing this out there, are you looking for > true encryption, or just an obfuscation? For example could > you do a rot13 or something equivalent? Sure it's not real > security, and it's easily enough worked around, i.e. > instead of searching for 'salary' I'd search for the rot13 > value of 'salary'. But maybe it's an extra step that would > make them (the management) feel more secure. And isn't that > what this is really about? > dave > > _______________________________________________ DBmail mailing list DBmail [at] dbmail https://mailman.fastxs.nl/mailman/listinfo/dbmail

Subject User Time mail encryption sim at compulab Jan 27, 2008, 11:01 PM     Re: mail encryption guntis at rixtel Jan 27, 2008, 11:41 PM         Re: mail encryption sim at compulab Jan 28, 2008, 12:33 AM             Re: mail encryption guntis at rixtel Jan 28, 2008, 1:30 AM                 RE: mail encryption jon at host-it Jan 28, 2008, 1:48 AM     Re: mail encryption paul at nfg Jan 28, 2008, 12:56 AM     Re: mail encryption paul at nfg Jan 28, 2008, 12:56 AM     Re: mail encryption michael.monnerie at it-management Jan 28, 2008, 4:19 AM     Re: mail encryption mike at mobrien Jan 28, 2008, 8:46 AM         Re: mail encryption mluich at globalcerts Jan 28, 2008, 10:01 AM             Re: mail encryption michael.monnerie at it-management Jan 28, 2008, 2:03 PM                 Re: mail encryption michael.monnerie at it-management Jan 28, 2008, 2:39 PM                 Re: mail encryption robert at summernetworks Jan 28, 2008, 2:50 PM                 Re: mail encryption mike at mobrien Jan 28, 2008, 9:00 PM                     Re: mail encryption mike at mobrien Feb 4, 2008, 1:56 PM     Re: mail encryption jake at vapourforge Jan 28, 2008, 3:23 PM     Re: mail encryption sim at compulab Jan 28, 2008, 10:58 PM         Re: mail encryption marc at electronics-design Jan 28, 2008, 11:48 PM     Re: mail encryption sim at compulab Jan 29, 2008, 1:19 AM         Re: mail encryption marc at electronics-design Jan 29, 2008, 1:30 AM         Re: mail encryption paul at nfg Jan 29, 2008, 4:01 AM         Re: mail encryption michael.monnerie at it-management Jan 29, 2008, 4:05 AM             Re: mail encryption marc at electronics-design Jan 29, 2008, 4:05 AM                 Re: mail encryption sim at compulab Jan 29, 2008, 4:26 AM                 Re: mail encryption michael.monnerie at it-management Jan 29, 2008, 4:50 AM                     Re: mail encryption davel at dsp-services Jan 29, 2008, 9:08 AM                         Re: mail encryption sim at compulab Jan 29, 2008, 10:28 PM                             Re: mail encryption casper at bcx Jan 30, 2008, 3:35 AM         Re: mail encryption cloos at jhcloos Jan 29, 2008, 11:57 AM     Re: mail encryption skraps at hushmail Mar 27, 2012, 2:10 AM

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