Security firm Global Web Security Systems, or gWebs, announced the release
of its MailCloak SMB and MailCloak Pro e-mail encryption products, protecting individual
e-mail messages by using open-source algorithms to scramble message, attachment
and draft content.
MailCloak SMB (small to medium-size business) brings e-mail encryption and
regulatory compliance to users of Google Apps and Microsoft Windows Live Admin
Center corporate e-mail services. In addition, it encrypts Gmail, Yahoo Mail, MSN
Live Mail and seven Chinese Web mail services.
The company claims countries and e-mail service providers have stepped up their
Internet censorship and eavesdropping, resulting in billions of e-mails that
may be getting eavesdropped upon unknowingly. gWebs says Web-based e-mail
services like Gmail, Yahoo and MSN Live Mail
are also indexed and searchable, both by users themselves and by service
providers.
Google’s struggles continue in places like China:
All results referencing Tiananmen Square on Google.cn
were blocked in the days leading up to the anniversary this June. China
ranks among the most heavily censorious nations regarding the Internet,
according to the Reporters Without Borders Internet censorship ratings.
However, there are a number of resources that allow users to bypass the
technical aspects of Internet censorship. Proxy Websites are often the simplest
and fastest way to access banned Websites in censored nations, while virtual
private networks (VPNs) and software programs can also allow users to bypass
Internet censorship. gWeb focuses on encryption.
"With MailCloak's strong 4,096-bit encryption, users can store encryption
keys on their own computers, or take their public and private keys with them on
USB thumb drives,” said company CEO
Jason Zhao. “This gives organizations and end users complete control over the
security of their messages."
MailCloak uses an open-source implementation of the OpenPGP encryption standard
combined with proprietary Webmail encapsulation technology. MailCloak offers
open-source, open-standard encryption with GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG), a Mozilla
Firefox add-on, a Microsoft Internet Explorer add-on, support for all POP3/SMTP
Microsoft Windows e-mail clients and an automated key exchange and access to
Cryptobot key exchange.
Zhao said MailCloak has added support for the tens of thousands of
organizations that use their own domain names on Google and Microsoft corporate
e-mail systems. "More and more organizations and end users are using Web-based
e-mail systems, but traditional encryption didn't work on them, so the industry
had to play catch-up," he said. "MailCloak is really the only
solution out there for hundreds of millions of Webmail users.”
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