FrontBridge Technologies, Inc: FrontBridge offers automated email encryption with secure email managed service; Policy-based service simplifies message encryption and decryption; Requires no client side hardware or software

• Published in: M2 Presswire p. 1
• Format: Newsletter
• Language: English
• Published: Coventry Normans Media Ltd 20.06.2005
• Subjects: Archives & records; Automation; Communication; Compliance; Correspondence; Customer services; Data encryption; Electronic mail systems; Public Key Infrastructure; Service introduction; Software

FrontBridge Secure Email does not require the on-premise installation of a gateway key server, with all implementation tools located in FrontBridge's global data centres. Companies simply need to point their Mail Exchange (MX) records to FrontBridge to take advantage of the easy-to-use managed service. System administrators can define rules to encrypt email based on a sender's email address or domain; a recipient's email address or domain; and, content matching in the subject line or message body, enabling policy- enforced encryption for all outbound emails. The public key for reading the email becomes the recipient's email address, eliminating the need for complicated per-user certificates typically employed by Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)-based systems. Upon receipt of a secure email, recipients simply need access to a Web browser to authenticate, read and even reply back securely. FrontBridge already offers customers complimentary secure messaging sessions between mail servers supporting the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol. Policy-enforced encrypted email removes the need for complicated certificates, certificate revocation lists (CRL) and other costly infrastructure. For companies requiring encryption of intracompany emails, FrontBridge also offers a desktop client version of its secure email service. FrontBridge Secure Email integrates with its Total Message Management portfolio, which includes award-winning services for spam and virus filtering, content and policy enforcement, and email and instant message archiving. About Identity-Based Encryption (IBE) Voltage Security products and services feature an award-winning, breakthrough technology called Identity-Based Encryption, or IBE. IBE was first proposed in 1984 by Adi Shamir, co-inventor of the widely-used RSA encryption algorithm. Shamir suggested that using common identities, such as an email address, directly as keys would greatly simplify the management and usability of cryptographic software. After 17 years, Professors Dan Boneh of Stanford University (co-founder of Voltage Security) and Matthew Franklin of University of California, Davis developed the first efficient and practical IBE system. Their algorithm, known as Boneh-Franklin IBE, enables an architecture for encrypting information without the need for certificates and complex infrastructure. Since the publishing of their original paper on IBE, more than 200 academic papers have been written on this subject and related technologies.