PrivMail: A Privacy-Preserving Framework for Secure Emails

ePrint Report: PrivMail: A Privacy-Preserving Framework for Secure Emails

Gowri R Chandran, Raine Nieminen, Thomas Schneider, Ajith Suresh

Emails have improved our workplace efficiency and communication. However, they are often processed unencrypted by mail servers, leaving them open to data breaches on a single service provider. Public-key based solutions for end-to-end secured email, such as Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) and Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME), are available but are not widely adopted due to usability obstacles and also hinder processing …

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