Patent ID: 11861042
Assignee: nan
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 6:
7. A method for enhancing the security of email contents comprising:
storing items of user data in different electronic components in a computer system, the electronic components of the system comprising at least a user device, a central server, an email server and individual electronic components, wherein
each user can opt to use any number of individual electronic components to store certain data items associated with the respective user,
the data items of each different user comprise at least one encrypted logical address, the contents of at least one encrypted user email, and at least one decryption key corresponding to the at least one encrypted logical address,
each different electronic component requires a separate cyber-attack to compromise the item of user data stored therein,
the data items are distributed across the electronic components of the system, such that:
the email contents of any single user are safe against a cyber-attack that compromises only M electronic components of the computer system, wherein M is the number of individual electronic components used by the respective user;
the email contents of any single user can be compromised only when at least M+1 electronic components of the computer system are compromised as the result of a cyber-attack; and
the email contents of N users can be compromised only when at least (Mavg×N)+1 electronic components of the computer system are compromised as the result of a cyber-attack, where Mavg is the average number of individual electronic components per user in the system and N is the number of users.