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On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 10:27:19AM +0000, Neil Williams wrote: > On Sun, 8 Nov 2009 09:10:57 +0000 > Henry Bremridge <henry.bremridge@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I was therefore really happy when I discovered that The Financial > > Ombudsman Service appears to use a product called "PGP Universal Gateway > > Email" that overcomes these problems > > > > http://www.pgp.com/products/universal_gateway_email/index.html > > > - If you upload your key to their server > > If you upload your *public* key to their server . . . > > (which you created with free software and which doesn't ever cost > anyone anything to use, process, validate or authenticate) > > > - Pricing appears to be $76/user/year > Apologies for confusion The service from the FOS is of course free. Because I am hacked off at companies refusing to send me my data to my email address and refusing to accept instructions my email (on data protection grounds because email is not secure) I was trying to find out how much this software cost the FOS. The only pricing I could find was this $76/user/year There are two issues that irritate me on this - Even if the banks / councils / insurance companies paid PGP Corporation $76 per user per year to send secure emails to clients, it would be cheaper and less headaches that sending letters or forcing their customers to use their $%^& webmail clients - If the local SW Councils used FLOSS to create a similar package and released the software into the community then not only would they save money they would also be using tax payer money to improve efficiency in general -- Henry Photocopies or faxes of my signature are not binding. This email has been signed with an electronic signature in accordance with subsection 7(3) of the Electronic Communications Act 2000. Digital Key Signature: GPG RSA 0xFB447AA1 Sun Nov 8 12:19:11 GMT 2009
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