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Privacy Enhancement in E-Mail Clients

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Information Technology: New Generations

Part of the book series: Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing ((AISC,volume 448))

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Privacy on top of security is a desired feature in web mail clients and requires more attention from research community. This paper describes a system which aims at providing improved privacy features in web mail clients so that a user can open emails even in presence of other people without disclosing anything about the subject or the sender of the mail or both as per the privacy requirement. The work has been implemented by tweaking the source code of squirrel mail open source.

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, National Institute of Technology Patna, Patna, Bihar, India

    Prabhat Kumar, Jyoti Prakash Singh, Rajni Kant Raman & Rohit Raj

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Kumar, P., Singh, J.P., Raman, R.K., Raj, R. (2016). Privacy Enhancement in E-Mail Clients. In: Latifi, S. (eds) Information Technology: New Generations. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 448. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32467-8_118

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