IEEE Spectrum
Network Security Essentials: Applications and Standards
Network Security Essentials: Applications and Standards
WSEmail: Secure Internet Messaging Based on Web Services
ICWS '05 Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Web Services
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Web based e-mail (Webmail) service is a popular mode of e-mail communication and is being widely used for personal and business purposes. Security of webmails carrying sensitive commercial or corporate information is an important requirement today. A comprehensive solution is expected to cover confidentiality and integrity requirements during transit as well as authentication of the origin of webmails. Although some e-mail security solutions such as PGP, S/MIME, SMS and solution from Freenigma are currently available, most of them are tailored for handling e-mail sent or received by mail clients such as the Outlook Express or Eudora and they cannot handle webmails sent or received by browsers. The Freenigma solution handles a few specific webmail services but does not provide a generic solution. The main challenge in developing a security solution for webmails lies in building a parser to extract e-mail header details and mail body from a HTTP message, that can work with all webmail services. To address this challenge, we propose SecWEM, a desktop level end-to-end security solution. The problems involved in development and how they have been solved are presented in this paper.