OK everyone, this is a "is this possible" type of question:


I'm the techie guy at a bank - my boss wants to know what would be involved in being able to send Encrypted emails to our customers when sending them online internet banking passwords and what not. I explained to her (and want to know if I'm right) that, in order to do this, not only would we have to have the encryption software (and I know a few good ones), but so would the receiving end as well. Therefore, we could send an encrypted email, but the problem would be that at the other end, they wouldn't have the software to decode it.

Is this correct - or is there software out there that we could purchase that will encrypt the email - send it to the user, and be able to be opened - even if it is with a user id and password?

Just wondering?