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Today, it could be dangerous and downright disastrous to assume your communications are 'secure'. This applies to phone, fax, email and other communications. Every day there are people experiencing damage from their communication being intercepted, modified and / or misdirected - or by someone masquerading as them.

In some cases, the damage may be only a relatively minor embarrassment. In other cases, the damage could be huge financial loss (e.g., from interception of key financial information by a competitor); injury or even loss of life (e.g., from stalkers or other hostile parties), and in some cases, loss of your freedom (e.g., for your politically incorrect communications or stance).

There are times when you want to communicate privately with one or more individuals and you want to be sure that they and only they get your un-intercepted and unaltered message. And the recipient wants to be certain that the message they get came from you and only you and that it was not modified or accessible to unintended parties.

SecureCom™ can help.

SecureCom™ is designed to provide the following critical features for secure online, Internet communications:

1. Confidentiality, from two aspects:

a. SecureCom™ provides the confidentiality of the message itself. This comes from strong encryption of what is communicated; other techniques will also be integrated to strengthen this aspect;

b. SecureCom™ protects confidentiality of the identity of the two (or more) communicating parties (sender / receivers).

In some cases, it is dangerous to either one or both of the communicating parties if a third party knows only that some type of communication took place between them, even if the third party has no idea of the content of their communication.

2. Authentication: With SecureCom™, the receiver of a message can be confident of its origin; an intruder is not able to masquerade as someone else.

3. Integrity: With SecureCom™, the receiver of a message can be assured that the message has not been modified or that a false message was substituted in transit.

4. Nonrepudiation: A sender can not falsely deny later that he sent a message.

These are critical elements in face-to-face communications and are no less important to online exchanges. However, does your current online communication approach provide the above? For those depending upon typical email messaging, the answer is no to all of the above. If you encrypt your message and then send it by email, you address confidentiality of the message and message integrity, at least on a certain level. However, you are still vulnerable to the issues of confidentiality of the identity of the messengers, message authentication and nonrepudiation. In some cases, these are the important issues for you to be concerned about in your important communications.

World wide web availability. SecureCom™ is available via the world wide web. If you have Netscape 4.0+ or MS Internet Explorer 4.0+ and can access a web site, you can open and operate your account online.

User-friendliness. Assuming you already use some type of public-key encryption, how simple is it to generate your encryption key set and properly manage both your keys and those of others you want to securely communicate with? Does it become too cumbersome to handle frequent changes in keys sets so you, or the other parties, stick with old keys when it may no longer be prudent to do so?

SecureCom™ provides a simple process of generating your public-private encryption key set. In addition, with SecureCom™ you bypass the typical key management headaches associated with this powerful type of public-key encryption technology. This is all handled automatically. Thus, you may easily and frequently change your key set and not worry about the hassles of updating the public 'key-rings' of all those you are (securely) communicating with. The system does it for you and them, automatically. Thus you are encouraged to make more frequent changes, which is always recommended for security purposes.

If you are going to go through the motions of communicating securely, why not go all the way and do it right. SecureCom™ provides a simple, inexpensive choice.

Advantages of SecureCom™
Over An Encryption Program
 

What follows in the table below is a comparison of the SecureCom™ system with a 'typical' public-key encryption software program.  Different programs have different features so the responses in the right-hand column may vary with the program.

The intent is to help you answer a couple of the questions you may be asking yourself, 'Who needs SecureCom™?  Why not just use an encryption program?'