Trusting Your E-mail with Java Security
By Theodore J. Shrader2003-12-04
Opening the message
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Certainly, you could open the message and allow your virus scanner to scrutinize the attachment, relying on it to detect malicious code. This route provides partial, but not complete protection. Remember that virus scanners only scan for known viruses and techniques. They cannot protect against a new virus and those for which a vaccine has not yet been developed. Virus scanners with up-to-date databases should be a standard security requirement on all workstations, but you cannot rely on virus scanners by themselves to provide complete protection to your important data.
This route addresses none of the security requirements. Indeed, this route actually flaunts them all.
So, if these possible solutions have failed or disqualified themselves due to their weakness, what technology can champion our security needs?
Tutorial Pages:
» Java technologies give you a complete and secure solution
» Security requirements
» Failing scenarios
» Building closed systems
» Using a secret key
» Opening the message
» Public and private keys
» Signing a message
» Signing messages with Java technologies
» Using PKCS and S/MIME
» Encrypting messages
» Conclusion
First published by IBM DeveloperWorks
