A Review of Research on Email Security Protocols

Abstract

Email is the most widely recognized approach to impart today. Email is utilized for sending instant messages and to send connection, sounds, and recordings. For business information, exchange email is the main means. It is the most common way to communicate over internet with different people all over the world. In addition, it has had disadvantages like cybercrime, people can use this means of communication for sending false mails spam, dangers, Phishing-messages and proliferating destructive programming like worms and infection and some more. So, it is important to secure the email system and take required measures to solve them by following certain protocols and punishing the criminal under the law court. This review paper contains the working of the email system used currently and the security protocols used to secure the email communication system. Security protocols are short programs aiming at securing communications over a network. They are widely used in our everyday life. They may achieve various goals depending on the application: confidentiality, authenticity, privacy, anonymity, fairness, etc.