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System and method for secure communication

  • US 20060230461A1
  • Filed: 06/01/2004
  • Published: 10/12/2006
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/30/2003
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. Computer-based system for secure communication of electronic messages, the system comprising a secure messaging server being accessible to messaging users via a telecommunication network and being designed to store incoming messages received from the messaging users, a database for storing data of the messaging users, one or more in- and outgoing automatic message handlers that automatically handle in- and outgoing messages according to the data of the messaging users stored in the database a trust management module for managing the messaging users out-of-band verification of their communication partners, the trust management module forming in the database associations between the messaging users and their communication partners, each association being indicative of a trust establishing out-of-band verification of one communication partner of one of the messaging users, and access control module(s) controlling access to a stored message based on the association between one of the messaging users specified as a sender (S) of the message and one of the communication partners specified as a recipient (R) of the message.

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