It can then be saved to text or printed. A small program on the shop operator's computer decrypts the emails as they are opened allowing them to be easily printed or saved to disk. Only a person in possession of the correct key can open the order. Left - The Cactusoft Encrypted Mail client. Once correctly set up on the shop operator's PC, it will automatically open the encrypted email attachments.
Orders take a split second to be decrypted.
Once decrypted, orders can easily be saved as plain text or printed. The shop owner does not require any knowledge of encryption to use the system. In order to get the full functionality from the system and have incoming orders appear as attachments, the email orders must have the MIME type set when they are emailed from the server. Not all mail components allow this to be set properly. DES takes about 3-5 seconds to encrypt a typical order from our webshop.