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My HR director would like to start sending encrypted correspondance to Insurance carriers via email. &nbsp;I understand that PGP would be an option to allow for encrypted email. &nbsp;However, is this a feature availabe in Exchange 2000 or Outlook 2000? &nbsp;Or is it an add on module that I can get for free? &nbsp;If so, can you point me in the right direction in obtaining it?
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My HR director would like to start sending encrypted correspondance to Insurance carriers via email.  I understand that PGP would be an option to allow for encrypted email.  However, is this a feature availabe in Exchange 2000 or Outlook 2000?  Or is it an add on module that I can get for free?  If so, can you point me in the right direction in obtaining it?

PGP Encrypted Emails for Outlook 2000

Security is the protection of information systems from theft or damage to the hardware, the software, and the information on them, as well as from disruption or misdirection of the services they provide. The main goal of security is protecting assets, and an asset is anything of value and worthy of protection.  Information Security is a discipline of protecting information assets from threats through safeguards to achieve the objectives of confidentiality, integrity, and availability or CIA for short. On the other hand, disclosure, alteration, and disruption (DAD) compromise the security objectives.

Security

Encryption is the process of encoding messages or information in such a way that only authorized parties can read it. In an encryption scheme, the intended communication information or message, referred to as plaintext, is encrypted using an encryption algorithm, generating ciphertext that can only be read if decrypted. For technical reasons, an encryption scheme usually uses a pseudo-random encryption key generated by an algorithm. An authorized recipient can easily decrypt the message with the key provided by the originator to recipients, but not to unauthorized interceptors.

Encryption

Internet Protocol Security (IPsec) is a protocol suite for secure Internet Protocol (IP) communications by authenticating and encrypting each IP packet of a communication session. IPsec includes protocols for establishing mutual authentication between agents at the beginning of the session and negotiation of cryptographic keys to be used during the session. IPsec can be used in protecting data flows between a pair of hosts (host-to-host), between a pair of security gateways (network-to-network), or between a security gateway and a host (network-to-host). IPsec is an end-to-end security scheme operating in the Internet Layer of the Internet Protocol Suite.