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Title: E-Mail Security Gets Personal

Author: Paulson, Linda Dailey Article Type: Product Analysis
Source: IEEE Computer, v37 n2 p26(1) Publication Date: Jan 2004
  ISSN: 0018-9162
  Illustrations: Charts
URL of Publication: http://computer.org/computer

Voltage Security's Voltage SecureMail is a software suite that operates with desktops or laptops to unobtrusively execute cryptography in a straightforward way. One algorithm is used to convert an e-mail address into a large number that acts as a public encryption key, and another algorithm creates the user's private key based on the public one. SecureMail also provides strong elliptic curve cryptography. The automated, simplified authentication process could mean that more users will implement PKI, which is the conventional way to encrypt e-mail. Automated use of an e-mail address to create keys that allow trusted, secure communications obviates the need for PKI-required enrollment and receipt of certificates from a third-party that attests to their identities. With SecureMail, only the sender has to run the software in advance, while recipients running different types of e-mail applications can click a link and download free Voltage software that automatically decodes the message and allows them to send an encrypted response. A no-download reader also can be used for reading mail in a browser, but not sending an encrypted response.

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Voltage Security Inc

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Voltage SecureMail

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