[H-GEN] PGP setup for home users

Christopher Biggs listjunkie at pobox.com
Thu Aug 28 03:13:35 EDT 2003


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Russell Stuart <russell at stuart.id.au> moved upon the face of the 'Net and spake thusly:

>
> 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.

Good suggestion.


>  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:

OpenSSL's CA stuff is improving gradually.  The addition of the "ca"
sub-program was a big step over previous versions.

Also, it's commonly overlooked that Win2K has a CA module built in
(not installed by default).   It's controlled from a point-and-click
interface and is actually fairly good.

--cjb


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