In fact, email may soon eclipse the telephone as the communication and information tool that ties the globe together.
Most people rely on the telephone because it is ubiquitous, reliable, easy to use, and private.
It's no surprise that people want the same kind of protected communications from their email. In Netscape Communicator , the latest version of our client software, Netscape incorporates encryption into email. Netscape software has always had encryption features. Encrypted email integrated into a mass market, open-standard software product such as Netscape Communicator represents a sea change of privacy and security for email users around the world. But encrypted email has law enforcement agencies and some governments in a quandary.