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Email Security: Subtopics: I. Email Security Standards. Ii. Working Principle of SMTP, PGP, S/MIME

This document discusses email security standards and protocols. It covers SMTP, which is the protocol used to transfer emails between servers, and security protocols like PGP, S/MIME, SPF, DKIM and DMARC that aim to protect email contents and authenticate senders. The document provides an overview of how these different protocols work and their goals of preventing spoofing, spamming and ensuring secure delivery of email.

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Email Security: Subtopics: I. Email Security Standards. Ii. Working Principle of SMTP, PGP, S/MIME

This document discusses email security standards and protocols. It covers SMTP, which is the protocol used to transfer emails between servers, and security protocols like PGP, S/MIME, SPF, DKIM and DMARC that aim to protect email contents and authenticate senders. The document provides an overview of how these different protocols work and their goals of preventing spoofing, spamming and ensuring secure delivery of email.

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Email

Security
Subtopics:

i. Email Security Standards.

ii. Working Principle of SMTP,PGP,S/MIME.


Introduction

email is one of the most widely used and regarded network services

currently message contents are not secure :

1. may be inspected either in transit

2. or by suitably privileged users on destination system


Standards: To keep abreast of spoofers and spammers, the email community has developed a
wide range of protocols to protect the integrity of email while in transit and to ensure that the
content sent is received and stored as intended by the originating server.

Sender Policy Framework

Domain Keys Identified Mail

Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance


(DMARC)

Transport layer security(TLS)


Link
• http://www.emailarchivestaskforce.org/documents/email-security-
standards-and-protocols/
• https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/email-security-
standards
SMTP
• SMTP stands for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. It is a
TCP/IP protocol that specifies how computers exchange electronic
mail. It works with post office protocol (POP).
• It defines MTA client and server in the internet.
3 important components
• MTA(Message/mail transfer agent).for ex. Sendmail for unix os.
->a message transfer agent or mail transfer agent or mail relay is software
that transfers electronic mail messages from one computer to another using
SMTP
• MDA(message/mail delivery agent).
->A mail delivery agent or message delivery agent is a computer software
component that is responsible for the delivery of e-mail messages to a local
recipient's mailbox.
• MUA(Message/mail user agent a.k.a email client).
-> are the software responsible for receiving a message from an MTA and
arranging for it to be received by the local system (eg delivered to a mailbox).
procmail is commonly used as an LDA on Unix systems.
SMTP uses commands and response to transfer
message between MTA client and MTA server
• Commands(examples):
• 1.HELO->used by client to identify itself(domain name or IP address)
• 2.MAIL FROM-> to identify sender.([email protected])
• 3.RCPT TO -> to identify indented recipient.([email protected])
• 4.DATA->send actual message.
• 5.QUIT-> To terminate the message.
• 6.RSET-> To reset the connection.
• 7.VRFY-> To verify the recipient.
Responses
• 1.Positive condition reply.
211->System status.
220->Service ready.
221->Service closing.
2.Transient negative completion reply.
421->Service NA
450->Mailbox NA
451->Command aborted.
3. Permanent Negative completion reply.
500->Syntax error
554->Transaction failed

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