Is standard e-mail transfer secure? Why not? How would you make it secure?

Answer 1

Regular email is not so safe. Your email may be read in transit to the person you are sending it to. There is however a solution.

The first one is by using a certificate. One such company that gives you that feature is Comodo. Here is the info from their website.

Comodo offers fully S/MIME compliant Secure Email Certificates FREE for personal use!
Free Secure Email Certificates allow you to encrypt and digitally sign email and attachments keeping them secure and confidential:

Encrypt your emails to ensure that the message and attachments may only be read by the intended recipients Digitally Sign your emails to prove that the message and attachments really came from you and not someone masquerading as you Digitally Sign your emails to ensure that the message and attachments cannot be tampered with en route via the Internet without the recipient being alerted to the tampering Key Features:
Free! Other Certification Authorities sell Digital Certificates for email for $19.95! There is no cost for a Secure Email Certificate. Free for personal use only - commercial users contact us for details on solutions for your business Fully trusted by 99% of email clients Encrypt and Sign emails from your current email client software - Microsoft® Outlook Express, Microsoft® Outlook®, Netscape Messenger, or any other S/MIME compliant software Binds your email identity (email address) to a cryptographic key used to sign or to encrypt your email You can read further info at

http://www.comodogroup.com/products/certificate_services/email_certificate.html


Another method is by putting a password on your email. Hushmail has that feature. Here is some information from their website.

http://www.hushmail.com/login?PHPSESSID=fde713c3702f39e5c27a824a047942d3

Hushmail
Free!

Exchange secure email with any email address Spam filtering & virus scanning File storage and sharing Unlimited contacts Email notification Secure instant messaging See more features.. I feel either method is a added bonus above just sending a email without any protection.

Answer 2

Standard email is not encrypted nor is it sent via secure sever methods.

if you need to have secure email, you would need to implement some sort of Public Key Encryption. There are lots of resources out there. Some may be free.

Answer 3

No i did no longer get this digital mail and that's surly a primitive way from an newbie Hacker to have your password. observe that yahoo (as an digital mail service) is devoted by applying regulation to maintain and save each and all the customers information (besides the fact that that's actual or no longer ) and decrease back it up. From yet another hand each time we log in yahoo, we deliver ( with the aid of the log form ) to yahoo information base our PW and digital mail handle which captured and in comparison with the suggestion which yahoo has and below his administration. If for besides the fact that reason yahoo has lost this information (your digital mail and password), you will no longer have the ability to log in P&S and submit this question :-) Be save

Answer 4

NOTHING on the Internet should be considered secure. There are many agencies who can tap into whatever they "deem necessary", whenever they feel like it. This is even worse at work. Many large companies constantly track everything you do on your terminal as standard operating procedure.