Secure Electronic Messaging (6)

• S/MIME

  • wide vendor support (built into Netscape E-mail, Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express, Lotus)
  • interoperability problems
  • S/MIME offers the following features:
    • encryption for message privacy
    • sender authentication with digital signatures
    • tamper detection (via secure hashing functions)
    • interoperability with other S/MIME compatible software
    • cross platform messaging
    • seamless integration into Netscape Messanger
  • See http://www.rsa.com for more details

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