[H-GEN] PGP setup for home users

[Russell Stuart]

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On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 11:31, Greg Black wrote:
> My wife is a therapist and wants to extend her practice by
> allowing her clients to exchange email with her in between
> normal face-to-face sessions.  To protect their privacy, she
> wants them to use PGP.  Most of these clients are just basic
> home users of Windows or Mac personal computers and they do not
> have PGP installed on their systems.

You wife's clients almost certainly run some version of Outlook. 
Outlook handles S/MIME signed with X.509 certs without installing any
additional software.  The only difficulty is the clients have to obtain
a X.509 cert.  These cost money if obtained from the usual commercial
sources, but you can generate the certs for them for free using
openssl.  This is not an easy process, but there are several HOWTO's out
there that explain how to do it.  For example:

http://www.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html_single/SSL-Certificates-HOWTO.html
- or -
http://tinyurl.com/lfww

I have not gone looking for open source email clients that can handle
S/MIME and X.509, but again openssl can encrypt a normal email using
S/MIME and X.509 for you.

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