A new secure e-mail system based on elliptic curve cryptography combined public key algorithm is proposed to provide security e-mail services more efficiently and easily. Compared with other secure e-mail protocol such as PGP and S/MIME, it needn't set up the third on-line certificate agent, with less key storage space and low calculation demand, especially suitable for the application in private network and intranet environment.
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Network and Parallel Computing, 2008. NPC 2008. IFIP International Conference on
Date of Conference: 18-21 Oct. 2008