Email encryption options for FreeBSD?

[Kirk Strauser]

At 2004-01-21T01:37:15Z, "W. D." <WD at US-Webmasters.com> writes:

> I'd like to use the PHP mail() function to send back some sensitive
> information.  The command pkg_info doesn't show any encryption packages
> installed.
>
> Does anyone have some experience with sending out encrypted emails?

Why not:

1) Install the security/gnupg port.
2) Generate a keypair for the email recipient.
3) Craft your script to use the "gpg" program to encrypt the outbound email
   with the public key generated in step #2.
4) mail()
5) Profit!

-- 
Kirk Strauser

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