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Email Encryption (SMIME & PGP)


This resource center offers the latest news and advice on email encryption, such as PGP and S/MIME and how to use them to ward off threats such as viruses, spam, worms, attacks, phishing and pharming.
IN THIS TOPIC:  NEWS (17) , EXPERT TECHNICAL ADVICE (48) , REFERENCE & LEARNING (16) , MAGAZINE CONTENT (2) , WEBCASTS (6) , WHITE PAPERS , DEFINITIONS (33)

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How to prevent poor e-mail practices
EXPERT ANSWER - How can I "prove" that sending confidential information to customers across the Internet without encryption is a poor business practice?
How RSA keys differ from DH/DSS keys
EXPERT ANSWER - I just made an RSA key and its size is 4096/4096. The cipher is IDEA and Hash is SHA-2 512. Is this stronger than my DH/DSS key with a cipher of CAST 4096/1024? Is RSA stronger than DH/DSS? I use PGP 9.0 and Kremlin with ...
Securing e-mail exchanges
EXPERT ANSWER - How do we secure our network so we can send confidential docs back and forth to our customers via e-mail? We are a mortgage broker and it's essential that all of the information we send over the Internet is private, secure ...

  NEWS: 1 - 3 of 17
Tumbleweed merger seen as a negative for email security customers
SearchSecurity.com | 06 Jun 2008
ARTICLE - Email security vendor Tumbleweed will merge with Axway, in a deal that one analyst calls a death knell for the vendor.
Secure messaging complications result in limited protection
SearchSecurity.com | 27 May 2008
ARTICLE - The market is hindered by multiple standards and deployment options, analyst says.
Companies still monitoring email manually, survey finds
SearchSecurity.com | 20 May 2008
ARTICLE - In addition to monitoring email as a result of an investigation, companies are hiring people to audit content in outgoing messages, according to a new survey.
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  EXPERT TECHNICAL ADVICE: 1 - 3 of 48
EMAIL ENCRYPTION (SMIME & PGP) EXPERTS
Michael Cobb
Founder and Managing Director, Cobweb Applications Ltd.
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Should iPhone email be sent without SSL encryption?
16 Apr 2008
EXPERT ANSWER - SSL encrypts all of the communication between your iPhone and your mail server. Network security expert Mike Chapple explains how important that feature really is.
Can the symmetric encryption algorithm for S/MIME messages be changed?
20 Sep 2007
EXPERT ANSWER - Encryption algorithm requirements ensure a base level of interoperability among all S/MIME implementations. Email clients, however, can add additional algorithms, provided they correctly identify which algorithms a particular ...
Which email encryption products can be released internationally?
05 Jul 2007
EXPERT ANSWER - In this SearchSecurity.com Q&A, application security expert Michael Cobb explains the email encryption products that can be used outside of the United States.
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  REFERENCE & LEARNING: 1 - 3 of 16
Information security book excerpts and reviews
SearchSecurity.com | 22 May 2008
INFORMATION SECURITY BOOKSHELF - Visit the Information Security Bookshelf for book reviews and free chapter downloads.
OpenPGP and email: Email from beyond your Web of trust
No Starch Press | 08 Jun 2006
BOOK CHAPTER - An excerpt from Chapter 8 of PGP & GPG: Email for the Practical Paranoid, by Michael W. Lucas
Email Security
05 Oct 2005
ALL-IN-ONE GUIDES - This All-in-One Guide is a collection of resources to help you understand and secure your e-mail systems from the bottom up.
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  MAGAZINE CONTENT (free subscription required): 1 - 2 of 2
Email Encryption
Information Security Magazine | 01 Nov 2006
HOT PICK & PRODUCT REVIEWS - Voltage Security's Voltage SecureMail Desktop
Obstructed View
Information Security Magazine | 01 Sep 2006
FEATURES - Encryption may be good for securing data, but it blinds network-based IDSes. While there aren't any surefire fixes, these techniques will steer you in the right direction.
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  WEBCASTS: 1 - 3 of 6
Email Security Insider: How to Assess TCO of an Email Security Solution - Vendor Webcast

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PREMIERED:   27 JAN 2005, 09:00 EST (14:00, GMT)
SUMMARY:   Hear from industry analysts at Frost & Sullivan the critical variables to consider when assessing Total Cost of Ownership, including the 10 largest cost contributors to owning an email security solution.
Beyond Email: Encrypting Critical Data - Vendor Webcast

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PREMIERED:   16 NOV 2004, 09:00 EST (14:00, GMT)
SUMMARY:   In this webcast, renowned industry expert Jon Callas explains the risks of sensitive data proliferation and how a comprehensive encryption architecture can protect data both inside and outside of email.
Achieving A-Z Email Security - Vendor Webcast

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PREMIERED:   19 OCT 2004, 09:00 EDT (13:00, GMT)
SUMMARY:   In this webcast, messaging security experts Jon Callas and Craig Taylor will discuss important messaging threats and describe ideal architectures to provide complete email security.
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  WHITE PAPERS
Messaging Security Goes Virtual: Improve Email Security and Lower Costs with Virtual Appliances
Published by: Proofpoint, Inc. | 15 Jul 2008
WHITE PAPER - It doesn't take a degree in accounting to understand that the ability to increase server and storage capacity without having to invest a dime in additional hardware translates into huge cost savings. Savings not only in terms of hardware costs ...
Regulations Shift Focus on Outbound Email Security
Published by: Proofpoint, Inc. | 10 Jul 2008
WHITE PAPER - Outbound email and other electronic communications pose a significant risk for data loss or data leakage and this white paper will examine the new email security and compliance challenges and ways to address them.
EMS Enterprise Archive™
Published by: Dell MessageOne | 03 Jul 2008
PRODUCT LITERATURE - EMS Enterprise Archive™ is Dell MessageOne's enterprise service that offers centralized retention and deletion policies, legal holds, compliance, e-Discovery search and storage management without data loss risks.
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  DEFINITIONS: 1 - 3 of 33
data encryption/decryption IC
14 Nov 2005
WORD - A data encryption/decryption IC is a specialized integrated circuit (IC) that can encrypt outgoing data and decrypt incoming data. Some such devices are intended for half-duplex operation (in which input and output do not ...
session key
31 May 2004
WORD - A session key is an encryption and decryption key that is randomly generated to ensure the security of a communications session between a user and another computer or between two computers. Session keys are sometimes called ...
cryptographic checksum
23 Dec 2002
WORD - A cryptographic checksum is a mathematical value (called a checksum) that is assigned to a file and used to "test" the file at a later date to verify that the data contained in the file has not been maliciously changed. A ...
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