PKI White Papers
Secure Email – Is S/MIME the Answer to Your Problems?
Overview
If correctly implemented, the S/MIME standard seems an attractive proposition
for providing simple signature and encryption ‘envelope’ functions for e-mail and
the attachments going with it. However, despite the interoperability challenges of
EEMA and others over the last four years it remains a challenge to get one e-mail
provider working successfully with another.
Because S/MIME was developed to provide an ‘envelope’ around the mail, its
content protection stops once the mail has been unpacked. Protection is not
bonded into the text and the files, something that is essential for later audit
verification or when text and files must be sent to multiple recipients and their
agreement captured.
| Publisher | ArticSoft Limited | File Format | PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Date Published | November 2002 | Downloads | 17 |
| Format | White Papers | ||
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