On 3/27/11 5:00 AM, Elaine C. Sharpe wrote:
> In linux.gentoo.user, James wrote:
>>
>> What I would really like is to be able to exchange encrypted mail
>> with any MS user
> 
> What, you've never received an encrypted email from a windows user 
> before? If you think about it, surely you have...
> 
> I know ms is pretty bad about standards and interoperability, but 
> pgp or gpg encrypted mail is relatively common on win, *nix, and 
> os x. Pretty sure the problem you're trying to solve doesn't exist.
> 

"Outlook" uses S/MIME rather than PGP. If this user is used to being
part of a normal Windows domain infrastructure with PKI and they haven't
set up their system properly then it would appear that they cannot
exchange encrypted mail with an MS user.