Privacy-Enhanced Electronic Mail

Published: Apr 01, 2000
Updated: Apr 01, 2000
Section: Network Security Library :: Privacy
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The security of electronic mail sent through the internet may be described in exactly three words: there is none. The Privacy and Security Research Group has recommended implementing mechanisms designed to provide security enhancements. The first set of mechanisms provides a protocol to provide privacy, integrity and authentication for electronic mail; the second provides a certificate-based key management infrastructure to support key distribution throughout the internet, to support the first set of mechanisms.

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