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Why LokMail?
Email is not private. Using it is like
sending a postcard, but worse, since
email gets copied and saved by the
computers that pass it around the net in
route to you, before delivering it to
your in box. It can end up existing on
several computers without you knowing
it--in plain text-- for anyone to read,
whether it was intended for them or not.
Web-based email is especially NOT
SECURE. According to an ABC report
published on 8/30/99, "anyone on the
Internet can access (Microsoft's MSN
Hotmail) email accounts." Hotmail isn't
the only one with problems. All the
famous brand web-based email services,
including Yahoo! Mail and POP email clients
such as Outlook Express and Eudora, have
experienced security breaches during the
past year. There have been
recent reports of the total lack of
security and access control to several
"famous brand" web-based email services,
where strangers gained access to users'
email accounts and used them
maliciously. Many of these web-based email
services cache your messages on the
local computer allowing others to read
your messages from the browser cache
files long after you have gone.
LokMail uses patent-pending secure
methods to build military-strength
security into an easy to use web-based
service. LokMail uses PGP to encrypt
and digitally sign messages, to assure
that only the intended recipient can
read it, and that they can be sure that
it came from you (as long as you guard
your passphrase with your life!).
Encrypted messages on the LokMail server
are decrypted and sent to your browser
over a 128 bit SSL (Secure Socket Layer)
encrypted connection, as "live, for your
eyes only" text. Clear-text is never
saved as a file anywhere, nor is it
cached by the browser cache on your
computer. When you are finished reading
a message, it is gone, and exists only
in encrypted form on the LokMail server.
Deleting the message from the server
"shreds" the file and makes it totally
unrecoverable.
LokMail is totally safe and portable.
You may use LokMail from any (128 bit
SSL compatible is strongly recommended)
popular web browser. LokMail is
compatible with versions 5.x and 6.x of
PGP, with DSS/DH/DSA keys. RSA support
will be available in a future release
and with advanced accounts, enabling
interoperability with all versions of
PGP.
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