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Posts Tagged ‘s/mime’Head to Head Battle of the Email ClientsFriday, December 5th, 2008As an email hosting service, we at LuxSci are frequently asked about email clients. We would like to share with you of our expertise and opinions about the most popular email clients. We’ve created a quick guide to email programs that includes an explanation of the client, its major features, and what makes it stand out. Enforcing Email Security with TLS when Communicating with BanksMonday, November 3rd, 2008LuxSci has had many requests from clients who have to communicate with various banks and other security-conscious organizations asking that LuxSci “enforce the encryption of email when sent to those organizations’ email servers via TLS”. This is such a common request, that I wanted to explain what it means, why it is good, how LuxSci does this by default, and the extra step that LuxSci can take to lock down things even more for you.
Read the rest of this post » SecureLine End-to-End Email Encryption ServiceSaturday, September 3rd, 2005SecureLine is a new service provided by LuxSci that allows its users to easily send and receive secure email messages to and from anyone on the Internet who has an email address – no matter what kind of email software or service that correspondent has and no matter how insecure that correspondent’s current email services are! SecureLine enables you to easily meet HIPAA (The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) and other communication security regulations and policies and it enables account administrators to optionally require that all users employ SecureLine and thus participate only in secure communications. In order to meet the combined goals of ease of use, maximum security, and communications with anyone, anywhere, SecureLine seamlessly integrates two distinct modes of secure email communications: SecureLine Escrow and SecureLine PKI. SecureLine Escrow: For secure communications with anyone, anywhere, you can use “SecureLine Escrow”. When composing an email for escrow, the SecureLine-enabled sender will provide an authorization question and answer; something that is confidential and known only to the sender, recipient, and other authorized people. When sent, the secure email message is encrypted and stored in a special “escrow” database at LuxSci. The recipient receives an email notification with the password to the secure message. The recipient then follows a provided link to the “Escrow Portal” to pick up the secure message and to optionally securely reply back to the sender. In order to access the Escrowed message, the recipient needs both the password from the notification email and the answer to the sender-provided authorization question. Thus, SecureLine Escrow allows simple secure communication with anyone who has an email address. SecureLine PKI: For secure communications with other users of SecureLine and with other people on the Internet who have compatible secure email services, LuxSci’s SecureLine also supports a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) compatible with the S/MIME (Secure MIME) and PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) Public Key technologies. In a public key system, the encrypted message content is sent within the email message to the recipient, instead of being placed in escrow for later retrieval; the recipient can easily decrypt and read such secure messages from within his/her usual email program or WebMail. This mode of operation is more flexible and more like normal email usage than the “Escrow” system; however it requires that the recipient be another SecureLine user or someone who utilizes PGP or S/MIME email encryption technologies. To read more about SecureLine, what features it provides and how exactly it is extremely easy to use, see the SecureLine description. Interview with Erik Kangas, President of LuxSciWednesday, January 15th, 2003by Berislav Kucan; reproduced with permission from Help Net Security Erik Kangas has a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is currently President of Lux Scientiae, Incorporated, an Internet services and consulting company based in Boston, Massachusetts. In the interview, Dr. Kangas talks about his company, email security services and the state of secure messaging.
Read the rest of this post » Email and Text Messaging Security in the Wired and Wireless WorldsThursday, August 1st, 2002International Lecture by Dr. Erik Kangas"Internet email, Internet instant messaging, and mobile short text messaging are related in that they enable communications by pushing messages from sender to recipient over generally insecure networks. The security issues and vulnerabilities inherent in all three modes of communication are also very similar. This talk will review standard security threats associated with electronic messaging in general, and their common remedies including symmetric and asymmetric key encryption, digital signatures, and message authentication codes. Next, a detailed exposition of the security vulnerabilities inherent in all phases of Internet email delivery will be examined and solutions such as S/MIME, Authentication, and Transport Layer Security (TLS) will be discussed. After a brief look of the serious issues involved with public Instant Messaging services such as AOL Instant Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, and ICQ, the Short Messaging System (SMS) over the Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) will be examined. We will review the current security protocols used by GSM and identify the vulnerabilities to SMS. Finally, several ways that GSM or SMS could be extended or modified to ensure the security and privacy of SMS messages, even in a multi-vendor mobile environment, will be proposed."
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