Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC

The Go Daddy Group, Inc.

Brad Owen

Wayne Thayer

Jason Steiner

The present invention provides systems and methods for allowing an Email User to create a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) Email Account and thereafter to digitally sign, send, verify and receive PKI encrypted emails over a computer network, such as the Internet. The systems and methods preferably include a Web-based Email System and a Certificate Authority that coordinate their actions to make the process of creating, maintaining and using the PKI Account as easy as possible for the Email User. In a preferred embodiment, a Keystore System may also be used to enhance the management and use of digital keypairs.

Generating PKI email accounts on a web-based email system

Tools for generating PKI email accounts

Receiving encrypted emails via a web-based email system

Sending digitally signed emails via a web-based email system

Systems and methods of the present invention allow filtering out spam and phishing email messages based on the links embedded into the email messages. In a preferred embodiment, an Email Filter extracts links from the email message and obtains desirability values for the links. The Email Filter may route the email message based on desirability values. Such routing includes delivering the email message to a Recipient, delivering the message to a Quarantine Mailbox, or deleting the message.

Email filtering system and method

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Mesa, AZ, United States of America

Brad Owen