>>>>> "EE" == Eric Estabrooks <estabroo at talkware.net> writes:

    EE> Robert P. Goldman wrote:
    >> Does anyone know if it's possible (and if so, how) to exchange
    >> encrypted emails from Linux with folks who are using the 3DES
    >> encryption that's built into outlook?  I'm corresponding with some
    >> folks who are unlikely to learn and start using GPG just to please me,
    >> but we'd like to exchange secure emails.  Any suggestions?  (Does
    >> evolution do this by any chance?  Never used it.)

    EE> I believe outlook supports pkcs certs for email encrypting and signing. 
    EE>   In which case you can just go to www.thawte.com and get free personal 
    EE> email certs and import them.  It's very painless under netscape and they 
    EE> have several microsoft options we you request cert types.

Thanks!  I'm pretty sure that's right, from inspecting the signed
emails I'm getting.  Sounds like this leads to the next questions:

1.  What's a pkcs cert?

2.  What's a linux program that groks them?  Does gpg?  I.e., what do
I import them into?

thanks!
R


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