TRANSPARENT PROXY FOR SECURE E-MAIL

Juraj Michalák – Ladislav Hudec

   The paper deals with the security of e-mail messages and e-mail server implementation by means of a transparent SMTP proxy. The security features include encryption and signing of transported messages. The goal is to design and implement a software proxy for secure e-mail including its monitoring, administration, encryption and signing keys administration. In particular, we focus on automatic public key on-the-fly encryption and signing of e-mail messages according to S/MIME standard by means of an embedded computer system whose function can be briefly described as a brouter with transparent SMTP proxy.

Keywords: security of e-mail messages, encryption, signing, software proxy, S/MIME standard, transparent SMTP proxy

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