Email SAAS with Augmented Privacy and Security
Amna Joyia, Abdul Ghafoor
Journal of E-Technology, Vol. 4, No. 4, 2013.
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Link: http://www.dline.info/jet/fulltext/v4n3/3.pdf
Abstract:
Currently available email standards provide protection of email letters using standard cryptographic techniques and formats like PGP, S/MIME. All these standards focus on the protection of email contents rather than the header of email. Clear transmission of headers is the source of privacy leakage and most of social security engineers have very serious concerns about this. They argue that the intruders can easily establish the link between the sender and receiver after intercepting their emails. Furthermore, if someone can extract our email addresses then he/she can send spam messages which are the main cause of information flooding and garbage in the inboxes. All these attacks lead to vivid threat to the userâ€™s privacy. This paper describes the design and implementation of an email SAAS with augmented privacy and security which provides solution to ensure the privacy of its users. A completely different approach is taken to provide protection to userâ€™s identity information and sensitive data using infrastructure level services for managing and exchanging anonymous identities. Furthermore, the solution is compatible with existing system; so any sort of change in the current system is not required.