{"id":159251,"date":"2016-03-22T08:38:05","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T06:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=159251"},"modified":"2016-03-22T08:40:30","modified_gmt":"2016-03-22T06:40:30","slug":"new-secure-email-protocol-smtp-sts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/159251-new-secure-email-protocol-smtp-sts.html","title":{"rendered":"New secure email protocol &#8211; SMTP STS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Independent security researchers and major Silicon Valley companies have developed a new encrypted email protocol, called <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/tools.ietf.org\/html\/draft-margolis-smtp-sts-00\" target=\"_blank\">SMTP STS<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>SMTP STS is a mechanism that enables mail service providers to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Declare their ability to receive TLS-secured connections<\/li>\n<li>Declare particular methods for certificate validation<\/li>\n<li>Request sending SMTP servers to report upon and\/or refuse to deliver messages that cannot be delivered securely.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.softpedia.com\/news\/google-microsoft-yahoo-join-forces-to-create-new-encrypted-email-protocol-501980.shtml\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>According to Softpedia<\/strong><\/a>, the new SMTP STS extension looks like the HSTS (HTTP Strict Transport Security) extension to HTTPS.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust like HSTS, SMTP STS brings message confidentiality and server authenticity to the process of starting an encrypted email communications channel,\u201d said Softpedia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSMTP STS will work alongside SMTP STARTTLS to strengthen SMTP and to avoid SSL\/TLS downgrades and MitM attacks, just like HSTS works alongside HTTPS to strengthen HTTP.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on email<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/155552-how-email-continues-to-grow-and-thrive.html\">How email continues to grow and thrive<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/152163-should-your-boss-read-your-work-emails.html\">Should your boss read your work emails?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/142830-sa-state-security-threatens-to-spy-on-whatsapp-and-email-report.html\">SA State Security threatens to spy on WhatsApp and email: report<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Independent security researchers have developed a new secure email protocol, called SMTP STS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":120200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[36,36211,36209],"class_list":["post-159251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-active","tag-smtp","tag-smtp-sts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159251"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159251"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159269,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159251\/revisions\/159269"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}