New technique for cross-platform availability control over electronic messages

Other Title(s)

استخدام طريقة جديدة في عملية التحكم في البريد الإلكتروني

Dissertant

Al Husayn, Ward Ahmad

Thesis advisor

Nasir al-Din, Hibah H. O.

Comitee Members

Ahmad, Mamun
Abu Zuaytir, Rad

University

Middle East University

Faculty

Faculty of Information Technology

Department

Department of Computer Information Systems

University Country

Jordan

Degree

Master

Degree Date

2015

English Abstract

Email is considered to be one of the most commonly used services on the internet, whether the recipient is three doors down or miles away, the fact that it has great importance in modern electronic communications is undeniable.

In current emailing system the user cannot control the availability of his sent emails after reaching their destination.

In this research, a new technique is proposed to grant email senders control over sent messages even after they arrive at the receiver’s mailbox.

The method suggests that the email gets encrypted by AES using a randomly generated key which is stored at the sender’s server.

The sender can control the availability of the key and thus the ability of the receiver to read the email.

The experimental results compared the functions of the proposed technique against the normal process of email processing, and concluded that the process of sending an email in the proposed technique required slightly more time, less than 10% additional time; however, the process of requesting the key and decrypting the email required above 80% additional time, than the normal process.

The study also assesses the standard deviations and the p-value of the experiments and discovers the correlation between email size and duration of email processing for the proposed technique.

Main Subjects

Information Technology and Computer Science

No. of Pages

100

Table of Contents

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Language

English

Data Type

Arab Theses

Record ID

BIM-694761