PHP and Outlook Encryption

[steve_n]

I need to send an email from a PHP site, to an Outlook 2002 system, but I need to encrypt it, as it contains personnal data.
Does anyone please know of a way to do this?

[Alexei Kubarev]

what do you mean by personal data?
Outlook doesnt have any ecription. Unless you mean the SSL certificated used for emails. but its not the outlook encriptiona s you refere to it
Please be more specific

[steve_n]

I need a way of sending data securely from a php based mail send to Outlook.

The data is personal information like address, telephone number, etc. It is not sending financial info yet, but this is a possible future development.

Can you help?

[Alexei Kubarev]

The problem is that you cant just say that it will send to Outlook
It can be a webmail and such. You will NEVER know what client a person is using.

The secure way... well.. how about sending a link to some page that will require a password and a username to be accessed. That page will have all the information. I dont know what else you could do. You may want to look at your SMTP server settigns to see what you can do there. SMTP servers use SSL Certificates as i recall..

[Redcircle]

I agree.. imho email is not secure at all.. you shouldn't send critial info via email even if it is encrypted.

[gesf]

I agree too!
The best option is, no doubt, providing an online and secured (at least username/password) way, so user can get access to this kind of information.
Also my guess is there must be some XSD trick to provide/delivering this data in some way, however... i'm not sure about my ideas!

[steve_n]

Firstly, can I say thanks to everyone for their comments on this issue, it is really appreciated...

The problem is that you cant just say that it will send to Outlook
It can be a webmail and such. You will NEVER know what client a person is using.

The email will always go to an Outlook client. basically the email will be sent to a set email address, where I know the receiving client is Outlook.

The secure way... well.. how about sending a link to some page that will require a password and a username to be accessed. That page will have all the information. I dont know what else you could do. You may want to look at your SMTP server settigns to see what you can do there. SMTP servers use SSL Certificates as i recall..

I will see if the SMTP server that my site is using will use SSL Certificates.

Cheers everyone