Can we make email secure?

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• 作者：Danny BradburyAuthor Vitae
• 刊名：Network Security
• 出版年：March, 2014
• 年：2014
• 卷：2014
• 期：3
• 页码：13-16
• 全文大小：526 K

文摘

Email has always been insecure. When it was first developed, openness and collaboration were necessary just to develop the nascent networks that eventually formed the Internet, and to keep them operational. But while that Internet has since evolved into a nasty tangle of threats and malicious behaviour, email has lagged behind. It is still insecure, and users risk multiple attacks. This year, attention was drawn to the specific privacy threats surrounding email. The question is, can this form of communication be made secure?