Sending Encrypted Emails

[hmdeassis]

Hello-

I currently have Exchange 2007. My boss wants to configure Exchange to send out encrypted emails.

Any ideas on how I can get this going? Where in Exchange do I go to make this change.

All the help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

 

[58sniper]

As mentioned previously, they would send the user a digitally signed message, which would contain their key. Once the sender and recipients have each other's keys, they can send encrypted mail. INTERNALLY, user keys can be stored in Active Directory, so sending a message to a coworker can be encrypted without the sharing of keys first.

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[hmdeassis]

Thanks again. I wish I would find some detailed info on this online. All I have seen are some scattered information here and there.

 

[muckermucker]

You are right Sniper. I got mixed up with signing as opposed to encrypting. I mixed up when the keys are used.

My method I said is used to sign emails. I mean everyone has access to the public key via the PKI so if you allowed decryption with this key anyone can decrypt it lol.

Just for my understanding, if he wanted to sign emails only then it would be only him that needed a public cert is installed. Nothing would need to be done at the remote sites?

This would be because the public key would be availble to remote sites to verify the sender.

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[58sniper]

Correct. You can either use a publicly available PKI from your own environment, or a third party PKI such as Verisign.

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