The Pentagon Says It Will Start Encrypting Soldiers' Emails Next Year

Re:The Pentagon Says It Will Start Encrypting Soldiers' Emai... by drdaeman on Friday July 07, 2017 @12:52PM (#14719897)

Oh.

When I saw the title, I thought they would start to use GnuPG or PEP or maybe switching from SMTP and MIME to something else.

And then it seems that they're still where the rest of the world was a almost decade ago, and starting implementing TLS.

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Re:The Pentagon Says It Will Start Encrypting Soldiers' Emai... by yebyen on Friday July 07, 2017 @01:36PM (#14720309)

Yeah, I read the title and assumed basically opposite, that this meant soldiers were going to start visiting one of those ridiculous "Secure E-mail Portals" to find out about upcoming deployments, or whatever else the DOD needs to tell them about via e-mail.

I'm a bit surprised they can even get their email delivered today without having implemented TLS.

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Re:The Pentagon Says It Will Start Encrypting Soldiers' Emai... by willstrafach on Friday July 07, 2017 @08:12PM (#14723283)

I'm curious what GnuPG would offer beyond what they can already do using S/MIME via CAC?

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Re:The Pentagon Says It Will Start Encrypting Soldiers' Emai... by drdaeman on Saturday July 08, 2017 @08:24AM (#14725177)

Not much. But, possibly, Ed25519?

But, yeah, I just forgot about S/MIME while I was writing that comment. It's probably a better fit, especially in terms of revocation (OCSP, etc).

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