Security issue

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Maurice

I must send an email with some sensitive issue. It is a code number and I
want to investigate the best way to protect the number. Is there a way to
encrypt just the number or must one encrypt the entire email. This is
Outlook 2003. Open to suggestions
 
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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

You cannot encrypt only contents in email, you must encrypt the entire email.

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After furious head scratching, Maurice asked:

| I must send an email with some sensitive issue. It is a code number
| and I want to investigate the best way to protect the number. Is
| there a way to encrypt just the number or must one encrypt the entire
| email. This is Outlook 2003. Open to suggestions
 
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VanguardLH

in message
I must send an email with some sensitive issue. It is a code number
and I
want to investigate the best way to protect the number. Is there a
way to
encrypt just the number or must one encrypt the entire email. This
is
Outlook 2003. Open to suggestions
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Have the recipient get a e-mail certificate. They're free at Thawte.
Then they send you a digitally signed e-mail that contains their
public key. You save them in your address book (Contacts). When you
want to send that recipient an encrypted e-mail, you use their public
key to do the encryption. Only the recipient with their private key
can decrypt your message. Everyone gets the public key but only the
recipient has the private key. That means if THEY want you to send
them encrypted e-mails then THEY have to give you their public key.
 
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