According to rumor, Doug Hughes said:
Since you deal with security issues maybe you can help me to learn about some issues with encryption. I am talking with one of the administration people about putting PGP on the system for everyone to use, but there are issues for them (the admin) as they might be liable, even if they can't read the e-mail. What other legal considerations should be evaluated? Is there any large organizations (like any other universities) that allow their students to use PGP, and have the system in place to make it easier for the students? If it is offered here I might be the one to add to the mail program (pine) that is generally used to transparently use PGP, which is what I mean by having a system set up for the encryption. Thanx for any help. Take care and have fun.
James Black black@suntan.eng.usf.edu
We have approx 1000 machines and 5000 user accounts and have pgp installed. I can't think of any reason not to have it installed, and lots of good reasons for having it installed.
We currently have PGP installed on our 2 central email servers that have approximatly 20,000 users. We haven't integrated it at this point into Pine, etc mostly due to time and resources. I don't know why inability to read e-mail would cause liability, and moving 2 million messages a week, I don't think that anyone could be expected to know what users are sending. We only respond to complaints. -- Kevin Prigge | Holes in whats left of my reason, CIS Consultant | holes in the knees of my blues, Computer & Information Services | odds against me been increasin' email: klp@cis.umn.edu | but I'll pull through...