full-disclosure - PGP vs. certificate from Verisign

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From: tjevans at bearingpoint.net (Evans, TJ (BearingPoint))
Subject: PGP vs. certificate from Verisign

At one time, i.e. - don't know if it still the case - Thawte would issue a
"personal cert" free.  

One advantage PGP has is the existing infrastructure for key distribution,
so that you do not necessarily need to have someone's public key (yet) in
order to encrypt to them or verify their signature.  If they have pushed it
out to the publicly accessible key-servers you can get it as needed.  But
again - it depends on what problem you are trying to solve and your
preferred method of doing so.

TJ
-----Original Message-----
From: Anne Carasik [mailto:gator@...l.cacr.caltech.edu] 
Sent: Friday, May 09, 2003 3:46 PM
To: Kamal Habayeb
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.netsys.com
Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] PGP vs. certificate from Verisign

OpenPGP is free :) as are other implementations of PGP.

Paying VeriSign to create a digital certificate for you
is not worth it, considering most of the encryption you
run into in the wild is PGP keys.

-Anne

Kamal Habayeb grabbed a keyboard and typed...
> Greetings,
> 
> I'm trying to get some expert opinions on which is better.  Using Outlook
> 2002, would it be better to use PGP to encrypt messages or use the
built-in
> option with a digital certificate from Verisign (or some other CA)?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Kamal

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