GPG vs. VeriSign

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Judland
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GPG vs. VeriSign

Post by Judland » Thu Oct 07, 2004 12:35 pm

Okay, I'm deep in an e-mail debate with our company's IT manager regarding digital signing of e-mails and the best method of doing it.

I say, use GnuPG/PGP and open source software... saving $1,000s in cost.

Mr. corporate IT says, use VeriSign because that's the standard.

I haven't been able to find any document that indicates the loss of any functionality or security by using the open source alternative. All I see is the loss of company capital.

Anyone have any insight on this sort of thing?

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