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One of the concerns for the network project is ensuring secure e-mail and any documents sent through e-mail. Prepare a paper that explains how e-mail messages can be securely sent. The paper should include the features of secure e-mail and how secure e-mail works. Include a discussion of vulnerabilities involved in e-mail and how they can be countered. The paper should include the following:

  • The 4 main features of secure e-mail
  • Discussion of the 5-step process for handling secure e-mail with PGP and S/MIME
  • Discussion of the vulnerabilities of e-mail
  • Discussion of countermeasures that address the vulnerabilities

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The 4 main features of secure e-mail
In order to send secure emails, two things need to be encrypted which include the connection
from your email provider and the email itself. The connection between the email provider and
the computer needs to be secured first (Ruiz-Martinez & Marin-Lopez, 2014). Secure email is
divided into four features that include algorithms, message formats, certificates, and trust
management.


Algorithms as features for secure e-mail act as the core of any cryptographic system.
They enable in transforming data that secure the system and are either secr...


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