E-mail Encryption Tools
Keeping the contents of E-mail messages private is a very important practice in Ecommerce, especially if the
E-mail messages could contain personal information such as credit card numbers for your customers. While
using secure protocols to check and send E-mail messages helps protect this information, the best protection
is to encrypt the E-mail message itself.
There are two excellent tools for encrypting the contents of your E-mail messages.
Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) is a well known and frequently
used tool for encrypting E-mail messages. PGP
Formmail is designed to use PGP when sending E-mail messages from Web based forms.
GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG) is an open-source and free
alternative to PGP.
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