Secure e-mail protocols providing perfect forward secrecy

IEEE Communications Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 58-60

  Sun, Hung Min ^a   Hsieh, Bin Tsan ^b   Hwang, Hsin Jia ^c  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c TAMKANG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

E mail; Encryption; Network security; Perfect forward secrecy

Indexed keywords

DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; INTERNET; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PUBLIC KEY CRYPTOGRAPHY; SECURITY OF DATA; SMART CARDS;

E-MAIL PROTOCOLS; NETWORK SECURITY; PERFECT FORWARD SECRECY; SECURITY ANALYSIS;

ELECTRONIC MAIL;

EID: 12544256656     PISSN: 10897798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LCOMM.2005.01004     Document Type: Article

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