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SMIME 8759048 Powerpoint

The document discusses S/MIME, which provides security enhancements to MIME email. S/MIME allows for encrypted content, signed messages, and clear-signed messages. It uses digital signatures, hash functions, and encryption algorithms. S/MIME secures MIME entities with signatures and encryption and supports various content types.

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SMIME 8759048 Powerpoint

The document discusses S/MIME, which provides security enhancements to MIME email. S/MIME allows for encrypted content, signed messages, and clear-signed messages. It uses digital signatures, hash functions, and encryption algorithms. S/MIME secures MIME entities with signatures and encryption and supports various content types.

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S/MIME

(Secure/Multipurpose Internet
1
Mail Extensions)

Cryptography and Network Security

S/MIME, Network Security


MIME
2

MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension)


 MIME provids support for varying content types and
multi-part messages
 Original Internet RFC822 email was text only
 With encoding of binary data to textual form
 S/MIME adds security enhancements

Have S/MIME support in many mail agents


 eg MS Outlook, Mozilla, Mac Mail etc

S/MIME, Network Security


S/MIME Functions
3

Security enhancement to MIME email


enveloped data
 encrypted content and associated keys
signed data
 encoded message + signed digest
clear-signed data
 cleartext message + encoded signed digest
signed & enveloped data
 nesting of signed & encrypted entities

S/MIME, Network Security


S/MIME Cryptographic Algorithms
4

digital signatures: DSS & RSA


hash functions: SHA-1 & MD5
session key encryption: ElGamal & RSA
message encryption: AES, Triple-DES, RC2/40
and others
MAC: HMAC with SHA-1
have process to decide which algs to use

S/MIME, Network Security


S/MIME Messages
5

S/MIME secures a MIME entity with a signature,


encryption, or both
have a range of content-types:
 enveloped data
 signed data
 clear-signed data
 registration request
 certificate only message

S/MIME, Network Security


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