ContentAssurity - FAQs
What benefits does ContentAssurity offer?
You need security to protect business and private communications so they stay that way. You need security that works regardless of what the people you are communicating with are using. ContentAssurity works with any application and it isn't affected by security failures in e-mail, IM or anything else.
- You can digitally sign and encrypt content - others can verify it was really you who sent the information, that it has not been modified in transit, and that only those authorized to do so can view it.
- Content is verifed/decrypted on-the-fly. It is transparent once you have logged on.
- You don't have to buy ContentAssurity to receive information securely. Our free reader software means that just like the postal service the sender pays - not the recipient.
- No application specific plug-ins. This means you can encrypt/sign/decrypt/verify content for use with any application.
Does the person I am sharing protected/signed content with have to be using the same application?
No, it does not matter what application you are using.
For example, you could send encrypted/signed content with MS-Outlook and the recipient could receive this content using any e-mail application such as Lotus Notes, Compuserve, AOL, and so on. The same applies to spreadsheets, word processing documents, etc. Content is decrypted/verified using ContentAssurity or ContentAssurity Reader.
What if I need to keep a record of all the messages in an exchange up to and including an agreement?
ContentAssurity maintains a full message log. Each time a message is exchanged the history is kept, including who signed which content and who it was encrypted for. You have a complete audit trail of what happened at every stage.
Why don't you use S/MIME or PGP/MIME to handle messages?
S/MIME and PGP/MIME were developed to protect information being transferred from point to point. They put an envelope round a message whilst it's in transmission. It can't provide message history and isn't implemented for multiple signing with alteration checking.
There is no standard method for checking multiple signatories or all the people who each message was protected for. Since these are real commercial requirements ContentAssurity uses a separate format that supports business and personal requirements.
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