Ciphire Mail 1.2.47 review
DownloadCiphire Mail is an email encryption tool.
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Ciphire Mail is an email encryption tool. It works in conjunction with your existing email client. Ciphire Mail operates seamlessly in the background and does not interfere with normal emailing routines.
It encrypts and decrypts email messages, and can digitally sign each message to provide authentication and guard against identity theft. Ciphire Mail is the first out-of-the box solution to match power with ease of use.
Here are some key features of "Ciphire Mail":
Ciphire Mail is the first easy-to-use cryptographic solution securing email communications.
The Ciphire Mail client resides on your computer, between your email client and your email server, transparently encrypting/decrypting and digitally signing your email communication.
Ciphire Mail is compatible with all email clients using standard SMTP, POP3, or IMAP4 (including SSL/TLS variants and STARTTLS support).
What's New:
New Ciphire proxy protocol for faster certificate and data lookups
Enhanced failover of Ciphire proxies in case of network problems
Enhanced caching of lookup responses
New signing option "Sign if encrypted" available as a global setting and as a per recipient setting
Support for SOCKS 5 proxies in order to access Ciphire servers/proxies (hostname and port number can be configured in the Ciphire Mail Options using Expert mode)
New certificate and key handling engine providing better performance and more detailed reporting about security warnings related to certificate validation.
Improved and faster account creation. Except for the challenge email that is used to verify the email address, all steps are now performed via a direct connection to a Ciphire server.
More detailed reporting about security warnings encountered while checking certificates and email messages. Instead of pop-ups, all security warnings are added to the body of the email message. Major security warnings are added to the top of the message while minor security warnings are added to the bottom. In addition, the subject report is set to "[Ciphire-warning]" or "[w]" respectively.
When receiving emails that cannot be verified because of any transient errors (e.g., network problems) the user now has the choice of receiving the messages in unverified form or to try again later.
New "individual address settings" to define if messages from a specific sender or domain are supposed to be encrypted or signed. If a message does not match the expected security status of a message a warning is added to the message.
New mechanism to export accounts via email using subject enforcer "x!" followed by account address (e.g., "x!alice@example.com"). Account data can be exported and send to any email address. If possible, Ciphire Mail will use Ciphire Mail encryption to secure the email messages. If this is not possible the user has to provide a password for securing the message. Old export messages created with Ciphire Mail 1.1 can still be imported, but not vice versa.
Enhanced support for passphrases containing Unicode/UTF-8 characters. However, this is still not recommended as Unicode characters may not work correctly when using the web-based Emergency Deactivation System to deactivate a Ciphire account.
Additional X-Ciphire headers in message header to allow mail clients and other third-party software to display status information about the message. In addition to "X-Ciphire-Report" these headers are X-Ciphire-Warning (if there was a warning), X-Ciphire-Encrypted-By, X-Ciphire-Encrypted-To, X-Ciphire-Signed-By, X-Ciphire-Signed-To, X-Ciphire-Signature-Time (ISO 8601 formatted timestamp).
New mode "Minimal" for automatic software updates
New mode "Extended" for fingerprint list checking
Enhanced Unicode support
Enhanced uninstallation mechanism
New format for account export files and account database files. Old files from Ciphire Mail 1.1 are still supported, but not vice versa. (Please note that you should avoid reverting your installation to an old 1.1 version. All accounts that have been created with 1.2 are not converted to the old 1.1 format, i.e., they would get lost. If you revert your installation, please delete the files "priv.db", "priv.db.bak", and "auth.db" from your Ciphire user directory, otherwise upgrading to 1.2 at a later time would not work correctly.)
Enhanced handling and processing of messages getting stored in the Ciphire Mail message queue.
Enforce certain limits on how many MIME parts are parsed in an email message.
Added workaround for mail clients and servers that do not handle messages with very large message headers correctly
More robust handling of non-RFC-compliant email messages
Linux: Syslog logging can be turned off completely. In order to do this add the configuration option "TR_SYSLOG=off" to "ciphire.conf".
Windows: fixed failures when reactivating Ciphire Mail via tray icon
Various minor localization fixes
Various minor changes and bug fixes.
Requirements:
G3+ 800MHz or faster and 512MB RAM
Mac OS X 10.3 or later.
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