Crypto heaven
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The term crypto heaven refers to the use of cryptography in an e-mail and data hosting in order to obscure the content to all but the sender and the recipient.
The term was coined by CryptoHeaven.com in 2001, when the organization began providing a secure and encrypted e-mail service and encrypted data storage system. Today, most e-mail client
s such as Microsoft Office Outlook, Outlook Express
and Kmail include facilities to send/receive encrypted e-mail, however few services provide such encrypted data hosting services.
The term was coined by CryptoHeaven.com in 2001, when the organization began providing a secure and encrypted e-mail service and encrypted data storage system. Today, most e-mail client
E-mail client
An email client, email reader, or more formally mail user agent , is a computer program used to manage a user's email.The term can refer to any system capable of accessing the user's email mailbox, regardless of it being a mail user agent, a relaying server, or a human typing on a terminal...
s such as Microsoft Office Outlook, Outlook Express
Outlook Express
Outlook Express is an email and news client that is included with Internet Explorer versions 4.0 through 6.0. As such, it is also bundled with several versions of Microsoft Windows, from Windows 98 to Windows Server 2003, and is available for Windows 3.x, Windows NT 3.51, Windows 95 and Mac OS 9...
and Kmail include facilities to send/receive encrypted e-mail, however few services provide such encrypted data hosting services.
See also
- E-mail encryptionE-mail encryptionEmail encryption refers to encryption, and often authentication, of email messages, which can be done in order to protect the content from being read by unintended recipients....
- E-mail privacyE-mail privacyThe protection of email from unauthorized access and inspection is known as electronic privacy. In countries with a constitutional guarantee of the secrecy of correspondence, email is equated with letters and thus legally protected from all forms of eavesdropping.In the United States, privacy of...
- OpenPGP
- S/MIMES/MIMES/MIME is a standard for public key encryption and signing of MIME data. S/MIME is on an IETF standards track and defined in a number of documents, most importantly RFCs. S/MIME was originally developed by RSA Data Security Inc...
- GPGToolsGPGToolsGPGTools is an installation package for Apple OS X with software tools for email and file encryption . GPGTools itself and all tools of GPGTools are free and open source software...