partofus.org Mac-Tests » S/MIME http://mac.partofus.org/macpress Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:26:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc Background knowledge: Email encryption for Mac http://mac.partofus.org/macpress/2008/02/17/hintergrundwissen-email-verschlusselung-mit-dem-mac/ http://mac.partofus.org/macpress/2008/02/17/hintergrundwissen-email-verschlusselung-mit-dem-mac/#comments Sun, 17 Feb 2008 13:49:11 +0000 Christoph Erdle http://mac.partofus.org/macpress/?p=78 In the discussion about governmental surveilance, telecommunications data retention, and fighting terrorism in Germany everybody, not only citizens of Germany, should be aware of that also your email communication is affected. Not only the connection data (who correspondet with whom when) is concerned, but also, based on the so called TKÜV all providers with more than 1000 customers/accounts have to implement a special interface for government agencies to divert the contents of email communication and save it there. Even if you, like German Minister of the Interior Dr. Wolfgang Schäuble, can say that you are “decent” (german: anständig), for sure nobody is pleasured knowing that potentially every single email could be saved and analyzed by strangers without his knowledge.

All three email clients support S/MIME by default. You only have to import your certificates to use S/MIME encryption.

The usage of GnuPG with the different clients and key management will be topic in some of the next articles here at mac.partofus.org.[/english]

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