Method and System of Securely Transmitting Electronic Mail
AssigneeComodo CA Limited
InventorsShane McGillian, Melih Abdulhayoglu
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Abstract
A method of encrypting email where a email is intercepted from an email sender, a public and private key pair is generated, and the private key is used to encrypt the email. A secure connection is then established with a server and the private key is sent to the server. The email is sent to the recipients who then connects to the server. The server performs authentication on the recipients. The recipients request the private key from the server which is returned by the server. The email is then decrypted using the returned private key.
Claims39
A method of encrypting email comprising the steps of
- intercepting at least one email from an email sender generating at least one public and private key pair,
- encrypting at least one intercepted email;
- creating at least one encrypted connection to a server;
- sending at least one private key to the server over at least one encrypted connection;
- sending at least one encrypted email to at least one recipient having at least one encrypted connection between the server and at least one recipient
- having the server authenticate at least one recipient
- having at least one recipient request the at least one private key from the server
- having the server return at least one private key;
- and
- decrypting the email using at least one private key returned by the server.
A method of encrypting email comprising the steps of
- intercepting at least one email from an email sender generating at least one public and private key pair,
- encrypting at least one intercepted email;
- creating at least one encrypted connection to a server;
- sending at least one private key to the server over the at least one encrypted connection;
- sending at least one encrypted email
- having at least one computer receive at least one encrypted email
- sending notification of at least one encrypted email to at least one recipient
- having at least one recipient establish a secure connection to at least one computer that received an encrypted email
- decrypting the received encrypted email using at least one of the generated private keys
- displaying the contents of at least one encrypted email using the secure connection to the computer that received at least one encrypted email.
A system of encrypting email comprising
- a server,
- a computer sending an email,
- an email,
- a means of intercepting the email,
- a private key,
- a means of encrypting the email using the private key,
- a means of establishing a secure connection between the server and the computer sending the email,
- a recipient,
- a means of establishing a secure connection between the server and the recipient;
- and
- a means of decrypting the email using the private key
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.