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GLOBALCERTS INCORPORATED (E-MAIL ENCRYPTION):
We also offer email security solution which is based around a network appliance, the GlobalCerts SecureMail Gateway. This appliance is installed on the enterprise network and is configured to encrypt and decrypt email that goes out to or comes in from the Internet. Automatic encryption and decryption is unique to the SecureMail Gateway.
To perform its automatic encryption and decryption, a SecureMail Gateway manages X.509 compatible public key certificates for each email user. It stores both the public key and the private key securely inside the appliance. The Gateway can be configured to always encrypt outbound email, or to only encrypt it when sent by selected users. If the recipient has an X.509 certificate that is discoverable by the gateway, mail is always encrypted using the public key in that certificate.
Even when the email recipients have no cryptography software and no SecureMail Gateway of their own, they can receive secure email from SecureMail Gateway users. Furthermore, the messages are protected by the same high-quality public key cryptography that protects normal encrypted email. GlobalCerts has also made the SecureMail Gateway as unobtrusive as possible. Users keep the same desktop email software they have always used, their email addresses stay the same, and they continue to use any groupware (such as Novell® GroupWise®, Microsoft® Outlook, or Lotus Notes®) normally. The primary change they will notice is the presence of cryptography summaries at the bottom of email messages, indicating whether or not the message was encrypted in transit.
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