Outlook 2007/Exhcnage 2003 - Encrypt Email

[snootalope]

I have a need to allow some of our users to encrypt some emails destined to outside the company. We only have a single exchange box and about 100 users or so..

I've looked at intellisafe and avaco but these don't seem to be as business fit as what we need.

Can someone please inform me on what might be the best way to go about this.. Should I get a trusted cert for our exchange box, then allow the users to use that cert for encrypting? Is that doable?

I don't wanna encrypt every single message just on a per-message basis decided by the users, so they'll actually be doing the pick and choosing what is encrypted and what isn't.

office.online wasn't much help. I know I need certificates and I know where to get them, I just don't know how it all ties together..

thanks for any info!

 

[Zelandakh]

What is your resoning for this, is it just TO some people or FROM some people to everyone? Do you have a budget?

 

[snootalope]

I'm being told there's new policies that apply to our company that require us to be able to send encrypted email to particular users in other companies.

I haven't been told of a budget, but we would be willing to purchase a new security cert of somekind that will allow us to do this.

It works great getting a digital cert from our internal CA, but I don't want other users (in other companies) to have to trust our inhouse ca. That's why i'm thinking if the ca doing the issuing of digital certs is already a known root cert on every other windows box, lets just get that cert to do the issuing of our secure id's. if doable..

 

[58sniper]

You might want to get clarification as to what needs to be encrypted. Do you just need to encrypt the connection between your company and another (such as with TLS)? Or do you need to encrypt the message, send it them, and they decrypt it. TLS is generally what I see a lot of, especially in the financial field.

Pat Richard MVP
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http://www.ucblogs.net/blogs/exchange/

 

[Zelandakh]

You definitely need to get a scope on this otherwise we can punt solutions around all day and still get it wrong.