Past few decades witnessed the birth and explosive growth of the internet and the communications &ndash / most notably the electronic mail- through it. Studies indicate that although security measures are deployed, their usage is very limited and problematic. This work proposes a system to address some of the shortcomings of present mail security systems, such as underutilization, complicated key management and unwanted immunization against filtering-scanning. A two-layer message encryption scheme with domain level keys is introduced and a performance analysis is presented. An analysis of the improvement on the key management is also presented. Results show that, e-mails can be secured without significant performance impact, and visible ease of key management, by using the system proposed in this thesis.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:METU/oai:etd.lib.metu.edu.tr:http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12612038/index.pdf |
| Date | 01 May 2010 |
| Creators | Tanik, Guven Orkun |
| Contributors | Ozgit, Attila |
| Publisher | METU |
| Source Sets | Middle East Technical Univ. |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | M.S. Thesis |
| Format | text/pdf |
| Rights | To liberate the content for public access |
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