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Most bars say encryption is optional.
The standing committee determined that e-mail use is similar to using the U.S. post office and commercial mail services, landline and cellular phones, and facsimile transmissions. At this same level, e-mail use does not violate the ABA Model Rule 1.6 regarding the confidentiality between the lawyer and client. Encryption software scrambles an e-mail message with a special code and sends it via the Internet to a recipient, who can then decode the text and read the message. This helps to prevent the message from being read by anyone else. The South Carolina Bar issued one of the earliest opinions in 1994, which prohibited e-mail because it violated confidentiality.