Certify-Mark release of POMSELA fuels the next step in the evolution of secure E-mail systems

Press Release by: Certify-Mark

Secure E-mail system overcomes major hurdles in public key distribution

POMSELA serves as a secure locker for the private key and makes the key available to all devices owned by the E-mail user, solving another major hurdle for secure E-mail systems

Houston, September 6, 2016 – Certify-Mark (www.certifymark.com) – a startup firm specializing in secure digital information systems – has introduced a product based on new technology which exemplifies the most secure E-mail technology available today: POMSELA, which stands for Personally Owned Mail-transfer-authority and Secure Encryption-key Locker Appliance. The product overcomes hurdles in public key distribution and the secure availability of the private key. Like other secure E-mail systems, Pomsela uses asymmetric (private/public) key technology. Other secure E-mail systems that use the private/public key pair methodology suffer from a common problem: it is difficult to administer the public key distribution and any required updates. What does this mean? If you want to send a secure E-mail to someone, you must first find out what their public encryption key is so that you can encrypt the message before sending it to them. Current methods of finding someone’s public key and making your own public key accessible to others are not straightforward. However, with Pomsela, you don’t even have to think about these tasks, because they are performed automatically and behind the scenes. Moreover, what if your private key is stolen or compromised? How do you revoke it and replace it with a new one? With Pomsela, if you ever have to regenerate your private key, its publication and distribution is performed automatically.

There are currently a few secure E-mail systems which keep your private key “locked” in your client device (workstation, cell phone, tablet, etc.). This is much better than storing it on a 3rd- party server, since you alone are the one who safeguards your key. The problem is, which devices is it in? If it is in your workstation, then it’s not accessible on your cell phone. If it’s on your cell phone, then you won’t be able to read secure E-mail from your workstation or your tablet. Enter Pomsela – because the Pomsela device is the locker for your private key, and because all of your client devices can access your Pomsela, then all of your devices are capable of reading your secure E-mail.

The Pomsela device is actually a tiny computer server (micro server) which is programmed to operate as a fully functional Mail Transfer Agent (MTA). Because you are the owner, you can decide how to manage the E-mail messages it processes. Typically, you will operate your Pomsela as a single-user E-mail MTA, with full bidirectional encryption/decryption mechanisms. E-mail messages you send to others will be encrypted by Pomsela with the recipient’s unique public digital encryption key before it leaves the Pomsela device. The message remains on the Pomsela in unencrypted format, but as soon as it leaves the device, it is encrypted. If you wish to refer back to a message you previously sent, you can view it because it resides on your Pomsela in unencrypted format. When you view it, it is transmitted to your E-mail client via an encrypted session. The message, while not encrypted in and of itself (like it was when it was sent to its recipient), is encrypted during transmission to your E-mail client and then decrypted there, using a digital communications certificate that is unique to your Pomsela server. When your Pomsela receives an encrypted E-mail message, it decrypts the message using your unique private digital encryption key, and then is stored on your Pomsela device. When your E-mail client connects to your Pomsela device, the decrypted message is made available for you to read. The decrypted message is encrypted during transmission to your E-mail client and then decrypted there, using SSL (Secure Sockets Layer). Any ordinary E-mail client can be used to read and send encrypted E-mail messages.

“The release of the Pomsela product will serve as an example to the secure E-mail industry as to how current major hurdles can be overcome,” says David Joy, founder of Certify-Mark.

For more information, see www.certifymark.com or www.pomsela.com, or send an inquiry to mailboy@certifymark.com.

Certify-Mark is a startup firm specializing in secure digital information systems. It is the creator of the POMSELA secure E-mail system and technology.

Certify-Mark
12558 St Ann Ct
Willis, Texas 77318
Contact: David Joy
mailboy@certifymark.com
Fax/phone message: 1.419.715.5694

This release was published on openPR.