Confidential and integral communications are the basis on which e-commerce and distributed solutions are based. Within a Windows environment, the only communications that are inherently secured are with the Domain Controller. The communications to establish the domain logon are protected, but all other communications are not secured. As a result an e-mail that was carefully encrypted by the sender and only decrypted by the recipient on their desktop is sent over the network in plain text when the recipient sends it to the printer, which largely defeats the benefit of encrypting the e-mail from end-to-end. Additional measures are required to secure other communications in the network.
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