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From the E-Government Bulletin. To subscribe send a blank email to egovbulletin-subscribeheadstar.com

MoD STRIKES PRETTY GOOD DEAL By Phil Cain philheadstar.com

The UK's Ministry of Defence is "highly likely" to adopt 'Pretty Good Privacy' (PGP) email encryption for sending documents to external organisations securely over the Internet, E-Government Bulletin has learned.

'PGP HMG', as the system is known, is a customised version of PGP Security, a product developed by Network Associates (http://www.nai.com) based on an algorithm put into the public domain 10 years ago by Phillip Zimmerman. PGP became hugely popular and gained controversy when it was temporarily banned for export by the US military.

"We are not talking about James Bond stuff here," said Ray Lepore of the software's UK distributor Connect Open Systems (http://www.cos.uk.com), explaining the system will be used only to send only 'restricted' items, the lowest security classification.

The software became the first to gain official endorsement as a way to transmit restricted documents when it was approved in May by the Communications-Electronics Security Group (CE-SG) of the UK security services (http://www.cesg.gov.uk).

Other government departments said to be thinking of taking up the software are the Scottish Health Service, the NHS and the Inland Revenue.

Lepore said the adoption of PGP would result in a better and more secure flow of information between government departments and outside agencies. He added that it would also be cheaper than fax and traditional mail, the methods currently approved for restricted communications.

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