gnupg encrypted mail and malware/spam

Anthony E. Greene agreene@pobox.com
Sun May 11 01:53:02 2003


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On 10-May-2003/20:15 +0200, Thomas Scheffczyk <thomas.scheffczyk@verwaltung.uni-mainz.de> wrote:
>If gnupg is used to protect mail messages it also disables all server 
>based protection measures against malware and spam. No virus scanner nor 
>spam filter an firewalls or gateways can check the encrypted messages.
[snip]

Your needs are not well addressed by GnuPG. You should consider buying
some of the tools offered by PGP Corp.

  http://www.pgp.com/

Tony
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