How are confidentiality and privacy addressed for email sent through the current Case email system compared with Case Google Mail?
Communications via email is inherently at risk of disclosure because messages sent via the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), the current standard for email transmission using the Internet, are transmitted in clear text. A useful image is that of a post-card, because the message can be read by anybody along the way as the message packets get sent between email servers. Email sent through the Case email system has the same exposure as email sent through Case Google Mail. The most certain way to ensure confidentiality is to use a full end-to-end email encryption capability. When users use a webmail client, such as mail.case.edu or webmail.case.edu, the built-in capability of modern web browsers to create an encrypted pathway via Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) or Transport Layer Security (TLS) is used to encrypt the communications between the user and the mail service provider. The objective is to protect the transfer of userID and password from disclosure. This is a definite must while us
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