SAFe-mail Announces That Its Secure Messaging System is Now Fully Compatible With PKI.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers JERUSALEM--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 29, 2003 All SAFe-mail users will be able to request a class 1 digital certificate free of charge and start exchanging digitally encrypted and signed email with anyone else who is S/MIME See MIME. compliant. SAFe-mail's own certificate server is used to store all certificates including those of SAFe-mail users' and non-SAFe-mail users. Consequently, SAFe-mail users have all the security afforded by S/MIME but without any of the complexity of managing digital certificates and their Private Key. Organizations such as banks, law firms This list of the world's largest law firms by revenue is taken from The Lawyer and The American Lawyer and is ordered by 2006 revenue:[1]
SAFe-mail can also give organizations the tools to authenticate (1) To verify (guarantee) the identity of a person or company. To ensure that the individual or organization is really who it says it is. See authentication and digital certificate. (2) To verify (guarantee) that data has not been altered. SAFe-mail certificates. Enterprise tools are also available to enable organizations to have read-receipt facilities. Amiram Ofir, SAFe-mail's President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , said this latest development enables organizations and their customers to communicate securely with each other using the strong encryption An encryption method that uses a very large number as its cryptographic key. The larger the key, the longer it takes to unlawfully break the code. Today, 256 bits is considered strong encryption. As computers become faster, the length of the key must be increased. provided by PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) A framework for creating a secure method for exchanging information based on public key cryptography. The foundation of a PKI is the certificate authority (CA), which issues digital certificates that authenticate the identity of but without the burdensome complexity that all other implementations of PKI impose on both the sender and the recipient using conventional PKI. Also, and no less important, is the fact that organizations do not have to invest in expensive systems to generate, renew, revoke To annul or make void by recalling or taking back; to cancel, rescind, repeal, or reverse. revoke v. to annul or cancel an act, particularly a statement, document, or promise, as if it no longer existed. and otherwise manage Digital Certificates. You can test drive a SAFe-mail account by registering for a free one at http://www.safe-mail.net and requesting a digital certificate. About SAFe-mail SAFe-mail Limited is a four year old Israeli based company specializing in secure feature rich messaging systems. Besides end to end messaging, SAFe-mail systems include a wide range of secure applications including collaborative document development, enterprise document delivery, data storage and on-line payment. For further information, visit the http://www.safe-mail.net site or send an email to inquiries@safe-mail.net. |
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