Re: Poor man's encrypted e-mail
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 10:05:49AM +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
> Unfortunately some of my friends can't use encrypted e-mail at work or
> for other reasons. On the other hand almost anyone who can read e-mail
> can also open encrypted pdf files. So why not send encrypted pdfs instead?
Do a test: there's a package in the debian repository that will crack
encrypted pdfs. Try it and see if your choice of password is strong
against that.
I haven't used windows since 3.1 so I don't know if you can get to a
command line to run OpenSSL. If you can, just encrypt the email (text,
pdf, whatever) with that using a shared password. Its nice and simple
symetric encryption.
Doug.
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