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  • While the Internet is new to most people, it was in fact was born in 1957 , ( it's over 53 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 does NOT need AntiSpam and AntiVirus protection
    • only people that you want to communicate privately should know your special encrypted email acct

Encrypted Email Pre-requisites

  • 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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