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Re: Protection mail at rest
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Victor Duchovni)
Wed Jun 4 10:05:35 2008
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 22:44:54 -0400
From: Victor Duchovni <Victor.Duchovni@morganstanley.com>
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com
In-Reply-To: <453ACC50-1051-410B-84BE-D071F9DC182D@gizmolabs.org>
On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 04:37:20PM -0400, Eric Cronin wrote:
>
> On Jun 3, 2008, at 11:51 AM, Adam Aviv wrote:
>
> >Depending on the level of protection you want, you could just add a
> >script to your .forward to encrypt your email before delivery using
> >PGP/GPG. However, this will leave the headers in the clear, so you
> >will likely want to create an entirely new envelope for the message
> >with the original message encrypted as the body or an attachment.
>
> Does anybody have a recipe for this first mode handy? plain text e-
> mails seem simple enough, but there needs to be a bit of MIME
> unwrapping and rewrapping to correctly handle attachments so that the
> client sees/decrypts them correctly I think. I've searched from time
> to time and never found a good HowTo...
S/MIME supports enveloped MIME objects, if PGP does not work out for MIME
entities, you could try that. S/MIME is natively supported in Thunderbird,
Apple Mail, and similar MUAs.
--
Viktor.
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