Posts Tagged ‘s/mime’
Wednesday, May 27th, 2009
We at LuxSci are always being asked questions about various email programs and their usage. With HIPAA compliance becoming more and more important, we get a lot of inquiries regarding secure email. One of the most frequently asked questions is how to install S/MIME security certificates in various email programs that our servers support. Sometimes finding instructions on installing security certificates in various email clients is difficult, even with the help of search engines. To make your search easier, we have complied instructions for several of the the major email clients:
- S/MIME for Outlook 2003
- S/MIME for Outlook 2007
- S/MIME for Mail.app
- S/MIME for Entourage
- S/MIME for Thunderbird
- PGP for Thunderbird via the Enigmail Add-on.
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Tags: add-on, apple, cacert.pem, certificate, certificate authority, encrypt, enigmail, entourage, import, install, keychain, mail.app, openpgp, outlook, pgp, pgp certificate, s/mime, s/mime certificate, thunderbird
Posted in LuxSci Library: Email Programs and Devices
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Saturday, February 14th, 2009
We recently discussed email security for accountants and mentioned that the use of password-protected files is not usually a very good solution for meeting data privacy needs. After writing this and getting some feed back, we thought that the issue of password-protected files really deserves some further discussion. Many people are under the assumption that if they use the “password protection” features of whatever software they are using, that their data is safe and secure. However, this is not necessarily the case. Why?
Using password-protected files to secure data is fast and easy and built into many applications. Why not use it? Certainly, password protecting files is much better than not doing so. However, there are several things that determine how secure these “protected” files really are.
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Tags: aes, brute force, dictionary, digital signature, encrypted, excel, insecure, microsoft word, office 2007, one note, password, password protected, password recovery, password-protected files, Password-Protected PDF, password-to-modify, pdf, pgp, powerpoint, s/mime, secureline, ssl, strong encryption, winzip, zip
Posted in LuxSci Library: Security and Privacy
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Monday, November 3rd, 2008
LuxSci 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.
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Tags: Bank of America, Bank of America Partner, BoA, encryption, pgp, s/mime, secure email, secureline, security, smtp, ssl, tls
Posted in Business Solutions, LuxSci Library: Security and Privacy
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Thursday, August 1st, 2002
International 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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Tags: asymmetric key encryption, encryption, GSM, Helsinki, hiit, s/mime, security, text messaging, tls, wired, wireless
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