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The Sand · 01-19-2011, 10:54 PM

Basically there is SMIME and PGP - PGP is the easiest but they only recently came to the table with Outlook 2007 SP2 so I don’t see them releasing 2010 capability soon. I have called/written and they have no idea when – they didn’t even say they were testing it. When they can give NO time frame it’s not a good sign.

Outlook supports SMIME natively you just have to get a certificate…. but so does the other person. Which isn’t bad if you are only dealing with a few people you want to do this with. VeriSign is the number 1 company for certificates, it’s 19.99 a year. Comodo is the number 2 company and they do it for free... but there are many companies that do this.

I can send/recieve encrypted SMIME from Outlook now to the people I have set up certificates for - but I cannot get the cert installed on the Blackberry. It may be you have to have BES for that to work on a Blackberry, which I don't have.

Sandy

01-19-2011, 10:54 PM	#144
The Sand Talking BlackBerry Encyclopedia Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Los Angeles, CA Model: 9810 OS: 7.0.1355 PIN: N/A Carrier: AT&T Posts: 357	Re: BIS - No Better Security than Web Based Mail Basically there is SMIME and PGP - PGP is the easiest but they only recently came to the table with Outlook 2007 SP2 so I don’t see them releasing 2010 capability soon. I have called/written and they have no idea when – they didn’t even say they were testing it. When they can give NO time frame it’s not a good sign. Outlook supports SMIME natively you just have to get a certificate…. but so does the other person. Which isn’t bad if you are only dealing with a few people you want to do this with. VeriSign is the number 1 company for certificates, it’s 19.99 a year. Comodo is the number 2 company and they do it for free... but there are many companies that do this. I can send/recieve encrypted SMIME from Outlook now to the people I have set up certificates for - but I cannot get the cert installed on the Blackberry. It may be you have to have BES for that to work on a Blackberry, which I don't have. Sandy
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