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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 06, 2004
Filed:
Jun. 28, 1999
Gary G. Liu, Plano, TX (US);
David P. Cook, Dallas, TX (US);
Zix Corporation, Dallas, TX (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for transferring a message securely from a sender to a recipient over a network and includes at each transfer: creating a message; retrieving the public key of the recipient from an external key server just prior to sending the message; signing the message using the private key of the sender; encrypting the signed message using a public key encryption algorithm and the public key of the recipient producing an encrypted signed message; generating an E-mail message addressed to the recipient; attaching the encrypted signed message as an attachment to the E-mail message; and, transmitting the E-mail message to the recipient.
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