Email Security: The Challenges of Network Security

Abstract

Now a day’s, network security has become very important. For those securities Simple Mail Transport Protocol is the most widely used protocol for e-mail delivery. But, it lackssecurity features like privacy, authentication and integrity of e-mail message. To make e-mail communication secure and private,e-mail servers adopted one or more security features. The security protocolsprovide a most security but it also has several limitations. This paper discusseslimitations of e-mail security protocols, analyses and evaluates theireffectiveness in e-mail servers, as well as outlines the various attack methods which are used, and various defencemechanisms against them.
DOI: 10.17762/ijritcc2321-8169.150605