No. He was saying that PGP is a pain and is there something better. Others have already suggested S/MIME which is supported by Netscape & Outlook "out of the box".
MS Outlook and Netscape (4.7 I know does) both support S/MIME e-mail signing and encryption. I'm pretty sure that other do too.
Once you have one of these go off to www.thawte.com and get your self a nice new certificate.
All you need to do then is send an e-mail to someone and they automatically learn your public key. They can then send you email encrypted with your public key that only you can decrypt with your secret private key.
PGP is a little more painful as you have to install PGP on everyones machine, and get this working with your mail client (Netacape 4.7 doesn't support PGP at all).
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No. He was saying that PGP is a pain and is there something better. Others have already suggested S/MIME which is supported by Netscape & Outlook "out of the box".
Once you have one of these go off to www.thawte.com and get your self a nice new certificate.
All you need to do then is send an e-mail to someone and they automatically learn your public key. They can then send you email encrypted with your public key that only you can decrypt with your secret private key.
PGP is a little more painful as you have to install PGP on everyones machine, and get this working with your mail client (Netacape 4.7 doesn't support PGP at all).
Brian