Title: Privacy-Enhanced Electronic Mail
Authors: Matt Bishop
Abstract:
- 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. This paper
describes these mechanisms, as well as the reasons behind their
selection and how these mechanisms can be used to provide some measure
of security in the exchange of electronic mail.
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