If you are having problems with message delivery, one of the first troubleshooting steps is to view the email headers. You can do this by viewing the message source. We will explain the basics, then teach you how to view headers in email for the most popular clients. These include Gmail, Apple Mail, Yahoo! Mail, Thunderbird, and Outlook.
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SSL and TLS play critical roles in securing data transmission over the internet, and AES-256 is integral in their most secure configurations. The original standard was known as Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). Although it was replaced by Transport Layer Security (TLS), many in the industry still refer to TLS by its predecessor’s acronym. While TLS can be relied on for securing information at a high level—such as US Government TOP SECRET data—improper or outdated implementations of the standard may not provide much security.
Variations in which cipher is used in TLS impact how secure TLS ultimately is. Some ciphers are fast but insecure, while others are slower, require a greater amount of computational resources, and can provide a higher degree of security. Weaker ciphers—such as the early export-grade ciphers—still exist, but they should no longer be used.
The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) is an encryption specification that succeeded the Data Encryption Standard (DES). AES was standardized in 2001 after a five-year review and is currently one of the most popular algorithms used in symmetric-key cryptography. It is often seen as the gold standard symmetric-key encryption technique, with many security-conscious organizations requiring employees to use AES-256 for all communications. It is also used prominently in TLS.
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If you are allowing Mozilla FireFox or Thunderbird to remember passwords to web sites and/or email accounts in their Password Manager tool, you should know that these passwords are all stored in a plain text file (base64 encoded) on your computer’s disk drive. This file is accessible to anyone with administrative access to your computer. If you have any concerns about the possibility of other people accessing your computer and this gaining easy access to copies of the passwords that you are using, you really need to employ the “Master Password” feature of these programs.
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A few weeks ago, we introduced the option for users in security-enabled accounts (such as users subject to HIPAA compliance requirements) to determine for themselves which messages need to be encrypted and which do not. See: HIPAA Compliant Email – You Decide Which Messages Need Encryption
The “SecureLine Opt Out” feature was then only available to users of our web-based email interface. Now, the “SecureLine Opt Out” feature is also available to:
Many email programs and services allow downloading and/or saving email messages in a format called “.eml”. This format is very simple and very standard. These are plain text files that hold one email message per file and which contain the full message headers and full MIME-encoded message content.
LuxSci allows saving email messages from WebMail and from the SecureLine Escrow portal as eml files for offline usage, and the importing of eml files directly into your email folders.
While .eml is a widely used standard, old versions of Microsoft Outlook (before v2010) do not support it and that leaves many people wondering what to do with these files.
Here we explain how to open and view .eml-encoded message files on your computer.
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