The Red Brick Times

I'll be taking Ciphire Mail for a trial spin in the very near future. It's not going to eliminate spam (drat the luck) but, if well adopted, will make it much harder for scammers to trick the unwary through those "phishing" expeditions that have been getting a lot of press recently. I've included an excerpt from a Wired article about Ciphire Mail below. Read the whole article (it's short and not too techie) for a good understanding.

Wired News: Safe E-Mailing for Dummies: "E-mail authentication -- confirmation that the stated sender actually sent the message in question -- could make many e-mail hassles fade away, since most scams and computer viruses rely on bogus sender information to lull recipients into a false sense of security. Encryption is also a good idea, given the increasing prevalence of snoopy software.
The Ciphire Mail application, free for individual users, nonprofit organizations and the press, works in conjunction with all standard e-mail programs. It operates almost invisibly in the background, encrypting and decrypting e-mail missives and digitally signing each message to confirm its source."

As if authentication weren't enough of a reason to like Ciphire Mail take a gander at this (also from Wired): E-Mail Snooping Ruled Permissible.