Hashing ensures that the message has not been altered with during transmission. Digital signatures helps to documents the contents of a message and the original sender. Confirmation services is one technique that would help to verify the receipt of a message. As corporations attempt to cut down on the unauthorized usage of their electronic resources, they have been monitoring the email accounts of employees to check their compliance with company policies. Employees have several alternatives available when trying to prevent their companies from intercepting their email.
Solutions allows customers to send email without sending their identity.
ZixIt offers email encryption software, ZixMail, that would allow email messages to be sent form the customers existing email account privately with the use of private keys. However, the sender and the recipient must have the encryption software downloaded on their computers. Currently, this product is free to the consumer. In the past ZixIt stored the private messages that its customers sent using their system which meant that the company could restore and read those messages at any time. ZixIt claims that it no longer keep copies of personal messages from its users.