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Encrypted-Email.net == Encrypted-WebMail.net
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- While the Internet is new to most people, it was in fact was born in 1957 , ( it's over 55 years old now )
with the technology and trust amongst the originally small scientific and military community.
- Today, you are flooded with bugs and virus and other undesirables
- The internet suffers from many serious security loopholes that any unauthorized person can
Sniff anybody else's confidential emails
- You can protect your confidential emails by following the "best practices process and proceedures"
as outlined by security professionals
- Encrypt all your confidential emails and "internet connections"
- use SSH for login into other machines
- use vpn for login from home or while traveling ==> but it is strongly discouraged
- use SSL enabled web pages on https servers for your name/addres and login info
- there's an endless list of internet security "dos" and "donts"
- assume that your competitor is reading your confidential emails 24x7x365
- do make daily backups of your important files
- do not use wireless connections
- do not connect from home, hotels, airports, coffeshops, cableTV, ..
- do not continue to "do it the wrong way" just because the smith's and jone's does it,
it is *-YOUR-* data they will get from you without your knowledge or approval
- An "encrypted email" system consists of:
- An encrypted email system does NOT need AntiSpam and AntiVirus protection
- only people that you want to communicate privately should know your special encrypted email acct
- A "secure email" system is NOT an "encrypted email" system
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| Encrypted Email Pre-requisites
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- Both the Sender and the Recepient must use encrypted email
- Proper Usage of Encryption
- if the sender or recepient creates, send, read or saves the email
in an un-encrypted format, the entire encryption process could be useless
- the Sender
- the Sender must use an email sender/reader capable of encryption
- the Sender must use an encrypted incoming/outgoing SMTP server
- the Sender must encrypt their email data
- the Sender must save their email data in encrypted form
- the Sender's ISP must allow and/or provide these encryption services
- the Recepient
- the Recepient must use an email sender/reader capable of encryption
- the Recepient must use an encrypted incoming/outgoing SMTP server
- the Recepient must encrypt their pop3/imap server
- the Recepient must encrypt their email data
- the Recepient must save their email data in encrypted form
- the Recepient's ISP must allow and/or provide these encryption services
- Encrypted WebMail Server
- a common encrypted webmail server for sender and recepient
will minimize and simplify the encryption process
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