Patent ID: 8977699
Filing Date: 2015-03-10
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for securing an email address, comprising: establishing a secure group constituted by associates in response to an establishment request from a sender, wherein the associates comprise the sender and a recipient, generating a secure-group address of the secure group in a random manner, wherein the secure-group address comprises a username and a domain-name address, the username of the secure-group address is generated by performing an encryption algorithm on at least one of a username of the email address of the sender and a username of the email address of the recipient, and the domain-name address of the secure-group address is same as the domain-name address of the sender; obtaining the secure-group address in response to a sending operation of an email, according to the sender and the recipient of the email; and replacing an email address of the sender of the email with the secure-group address and transmitting the email to an email address of the recipient of the email.