Email Security?

Gwen H asked:

What’s a good program for sending my email securely?

Comments (3) Posted in Security

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ms_small_biz_specialist - February 26th, 2009 at 10:50 am
Email by default is about as secure as standing on a a street with a poster listing all your personal info. Anyone in between the sending and recieving client can read, divert, edit an email.

To protect this from happening you can do two things, Encrypt and Sign. Signing will verify the email came from the person it says it comes from, nothing more. Encrypting however will prevent the email from being altered or read in transit.

To encrypt email you can use a third party program such as PGP which is very popular or inside of Outlook you can use the built in encryption if you have a valid personal certi say from Thawte.

Personally I prefer the builtin encryption for Outlook due to it’s ease of use but I feel PGP is the better product especially when using the older program before Zimmerman was forced to do the rewrite.
solomonmatheson - March 1st, 2009 at 5:03 pm
I use TrustMeSPN for secure email. It is an really simple buddy list email security program. It even supports web based email, like Yahoo and Hotmail as well it works with Outlook.

I add buddies to my lists, and anyone on my list, it sends the email securely back and forth.
ris12hi - March 4th, 2009 at 2:11 am
PGP is a good encryption program to encrytp or decrypt emails. If is free for non commercial use. Check it out at.

Rishi Tripathi

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