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Date:      Tue, 20 Jan 2004 21:55:28 -0600
From:      Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Email encryption options for FreeBSD?
Message-ID:  <87isj6gdlb.fsf@strauser.com>
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20040120193001.05cca510@209.152.117.178> (W. D.'s message of "Tue, 20 Jan 2004 19:37:15 -0600")
References:  <5.1.0.14.2.20040120193001.05cca510@209.152.117.178>

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At 2004-01-21T01:37:15Z, "W. D." <WD@US-Webmasters.com> writes:

> I'd like to use the PHP mail() function to send back some sensitive
> information.  The command pkg_info doesn't show any encryption packages
> installed.
>
> Does anyone have some experience with sending out encrypted emails?

Why not:

1) Install the security/gnupg port.
2) Generate a keypair for the email recipient.
3) Craft your script to use the "gpg" program to encrypt the outbound email
   with the public key generated in step #2.
4) mail()
5) Profit!

=2D-=20
Kirk Strauser

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