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People are concerned with spam mails and viruses or worms contained in e-mails. However, people often neglect the security issues concerning the content of e-mails. In this paper, we propose practical and secure e-mail protocols that provide perfect forward secrecy. Unlike previous proposals, our protocols can be deployed without any change to the current infrastructure. Moreover, we provide a way for the sender to securely send an identical e-mail to multiple receivers.
This research was also supported by the MIC (Ministry of Information and Communication), Korea, under the HNRC (Home Network Research Center) - ITRC (Information Technology Research Center) support program supervised by the IITA (Institute of Information Technology Assessment).
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Kim, S., Lee, C., Kim, D., Oh, H. (2007). A Practical Way to Provide Perfect Forward Secrecy for Secure E-Mail Protocols. In: Janowski, T., Mohanty, H. (eds) Distributed Computing and Internet Technology. ICDCIT 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4882. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-77115-9_35
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