New law requiring email encryption takes effect
The Nevada law that requires businesses to encrypt data that is transmitted to customers took effect this month, and is expected to have an impact far beyond the state’s borders. An article in today’s Wall Street Journal highlighted some of the challenges of the bill, to which all companies doing business with people in Arizona must comply.
Obtaining Public Keys
Last time I talked about Pretty Good Privacy or PGP. PGP you remember is a way to secure your email by using Public and Private keys. Well now I’m going to tell you how to exchange those Public keys.
AES Encryption Email
In my last post I talked about encryption algorithms Data Encryption Standard (DES) and triple DES (3DES).
Other encryption algorithms include RC4, RC5, RC6 (proprietary encryption ciphers named after Dr. Ronald Rivest of what is now RSA Security) and the more recently approved standard, Advanced Encryption Standard (AES).
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