Privacy Enhanced Mail

(PEM) Internet electronic mail which provides confidentiality, authentication and message integrity using various encryption methods.

See also Pretty Good Privacy.

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PEM

(Privacy Enhanced Mail) A standard for secure email on the Internet. It supports encryption, digital signatures and digital certificates as well as both private and public key methods. Not widely used, work on PEM later evolved into S/MIME. See MIME.

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Recent advances in message encryption, such as Pretty Good Privacy (PCP) and Privacy Enhanced Mail (PEM), offer the best hope for personal privacy protection.

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For example, improved operating systems, user-to-system and system-to-system authentication, network encryption, and privacy enhanced mail (PEM, RIPEM, etc.) can significantly increase the security attainable.

Technology, laws, and society

The primary focus of the effort to develop and deploy Internet Privacy Enhanced Mail (PEM) is the provision of security for email users in the Internet community.

Internet Privacy Enhanced Mail

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