Not all DMS users will require the full Fortezza security for their e-mail. Most will rely on security protocols found in the e-mail client and server software. All the Air Force e-mail servers are DMS servers, Jakabcin said. John Ellis, the Army's project officer for tactical DMS at Fort Monmouth, N.J., said the big shift will be in abandoning intermediaries for classified messages, which will arrive in the same e-mail basket as other items. With standard commercial e-mail, that's not the case.
Users can digitally sign the message and recipients can verify who the originator was.
When the boss says take the hill, I know he said it. Ellis said battlefield deployment of DMS would come after the command and control installation. Along with installing DMS for 400,000 military users from its current 10,000, Jakabcin said, the big effort in DMS sales is to garner more users overall for either Microsoft Exchange and Outlook software or Lotus Domino and Notes. The different software appeals to different military organizations, and the vendors handle those sales. Tim Dioquino, DMS product manager for Microsoft Federal Systems in Washington, said his company has about 80 percent of the high-assurance market.