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Hi all, in the past I have received messages from postmaster telling me that my email could not be sent due to some error,which I corrected. This leads me to ask the question :- How secure are our emails when we send them, are they able to be read by a third party & if so is there a way of sending mail that can only be read by the person I am sending it to ?
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"how secure are emails"
Not at all secure, they were never intended to be a secure means of communication.
Only way to send secure emails is to encrypt them
http://office.microso...ages-HP001230536.aspx
But obviously you need to make sure the recipient has the key to decrypt the mail when they receive it.
Not at all secure, they were never intended to be a secure means of communication.
Only way to send secure emails is to encrypt them
http://office.microso...ages-HP001230536.aspx
But obviously you need to make sure the recipient has the key to decrypt the mail when they receive it.
babe - They are not secure. I'm studying forensic computing and one of the things we did in the labs was to send an email using a fake email address. Couple that with the fact that government security people can read emails being sent across the internet and you have a method of communication which is no way near as secure as you think it is
"Also the ISP can read them"
I'd doubt that as long as they are encrypted with decent encryption then the body off the message is encrypted before it leaves your local computer and is not decrypted until it reaches the receiving computer so at all points while it's passing through the ISPs networks it will be encrypted, And I seriously doubt ISPs have the means to crack 256bit encryption cyphers.
Of course if you are referring to web mail services then they probably could read them, but anyone who sends an encrypted email using a webmail service and expects it to be fully secure deserves everything they get.
I'd doubt that as long as they are encrypted with decent encryption then the body off the message is encrypted before it leaves your local computer and is not decrypted until it reaches the receiving computer so at all points while it's passing through the ISPs networks it will be encrypted, And I seriously doubt ISPs have the means to crack 256bit encryption cyphers.
Of course if you are referring to web mail services then they probably could read them, but anyone who sends an encrypted email using a webmail service and expects it to be fully secure deserves everything they get.
How would they have the private key? or access to it?
For example, if I was to encrypt an email using PGP version 6 (one of the versions before it was sold out so from when the source code will still publicly available and checkable for backdoors ) and made sure the private key was sent to the receiver in a secure manner I can't see how my ISP cold get their hands on anything that would enable them to read my mail.
For example, if I was to encrypt an email using PGP version 6 (one of the versions before it was sold out so from when the source code will still publicly available and checkable for backdoors ) and made sure the private key was sent to the receiver in a secure manner I can't see how my ISP cold get their hands on anything that would enable them to read my mail.
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