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Comparing Email Encryption Methods: MOSS, PGP, and S/MIME

Nov 23, 2004 •

Anthony Pell

1 min read

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email encryption PGP encryption method MOSS S/MIME security comparison

This documentation briefly reviews and compares five major email encryption protocols under consideration: MOSS, MSP, PGP, PGP/MIME, and S/MIME. Each is capable of adequate security, but also suffers from the lack of good implementation, in the conte