Contribution to Book
Security and Privacy Issues in Secure E-Mail Standards and Services
Security and Privacy Assurance in Advancing Technologies: New Developments
(2011)
Abstract
Secure e-mail standards, such as Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) and Secure / Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension (S/MIME), apply cryptographic algorithms to provide secure and private e-mail services over the public Internet. In this article, we first review a number of cryptographic ciphers, trust and certificate systems, and key management systems and infrastructures widely used in secure e-mail standards and services. We then focus on the discussion of several essential security and privacy issues, such as cryptographic cipher selection and operation sequences, in both PGP and S/MIME. This work tries to provide readers a comprehensive impression of the security and privacy provided in the current secure e-mail services.
Keywords
- Security issues,
- Privacy issues,
- Secure e-mail standards,
- Secure e-mail services
Disciplines
Publication Date
2011
Editor
Hamid Nemati
Publisher
IGI Global
ISBN
9781609602024
DOI
10.4018/978-1-60960-200-0.ch013
Citation Information
Lei Chen, Wen-Chen Hu, Ming Yang and Lei Zhang. "Security and Privacy Issues in Secure E-Mail Standards and Services" Security and Privacy Assurance in Advancing Technologies: New Developments (2011) p. 174 - 185 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/lei-chen/47/