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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 20, 2007
Filed:
Apr. 21, 2003
David Tamagno, Austin, TX (US);
Jerome Tournemille, Austin, TX (US);
David Tamagno, Austin, TX (US);
Jerome Tournemille, Austin, TX (US);
STMicroelectronics, Inc., Carrollton, TX (US);
Abstract
A system and method for transmitting and receiving secure e-mails is disclosed. A smart card device stores both private and public keys for an encryption algorithm. The smart card device is preferably a USB smart card device and interfaces a host having a client e-mail program. E-mails are transferred to and/or from the client e-mail program and e-mail server via the smart card while decrypting and encrypting any transmitted and/or received e-mails within the smart card device. The smart card device stores an IP address for an e-mail server. A Simple Mail Transfer Protocol outgoing parameter is set from the client e-mail program to an IP address for the smart card device.