Corporate use

[Robert Menschel]

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Tuesday, June 12, 2001, 3:57:12 PM, Mark wrote:

MHW> On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Erich Kolb wrote:
>> Just out of curiosity, how many people out there are using GnuPG at
a
>> corporate level?

MHW> Do you mean:  how many people use GnuPG at work?  Or:  how many
MHW> workers can get official support from the IS department for the
MHW> use of GnuPG at their jobs, as opposed to a horrified look at the
MHW> thought of the corporate network being contaminated with
MHW> "dangerous" free software? :-/

MHW> I'm in the first category, but probably not in the second.

I'm the I.S. Manager for my corporation, and have no objection to
using free software -- use Apache for our Intranet, perl for some
production programs, and even GnuPG itself on a web site.

But those are items I can get directly at -- I know how they were
installed, and I can get to each and every file if needed to do
maintenance.

I don't have that type of access to the hordes of individual PCs
scattered around the corporation.

When someone in the corporation wants encryption security (count so
far: 3 including me), I get them commercial PGP for one reason: I know
what package they're getting, and I can walk them through the install
with
my eyes closed.

Bob Menschel

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