Patent ID: 8862870

Claim:
A method for more efficiently providing security for an encrypted item via multi-level tagging, the method comprising: (a) identifying, by a device that a first encrypted item of a first message has attached a first tag as one of a first prefix or a first postfix to the first encrypted item that identifies the first encrypted item is encrypted; (b) removing, by the device responsive to the identification, the first tag from the first encrypted item; (c) decrypting, by the device responsive to the identification of the first tag, the first encrypted item with the first tag removed; (d) determining, by the device, that the decrypted item has attached a second tag as one of a second prefix or a second postfix to the decrypted item that identifies that the device had encrypted the item into the first encrypted item; and (e) processing, by the device responsive to the determination that the decrypted item has attached the second tag, the item with the second tag removed from the first encrypted item.