SK50272016U1 - System for electronic mail certification - Google Patents

Abstract

The technical solution describes an e-mail certification system comprising an e-mail sender (1) that is connectable to an outgoing e-mail server (16) that is connectable to an incoming e-mail server (13) to which the terminal is connectable ( (14) an e-mail recipient, wherein the outgoing e-mail server (16) is connectable to a qualified certificate server (17) and the outgoing e-mail server (16) includes an e-mail checksum processing block (6) for which it is behind a block (7) connected to store the time stamp message and the standard send block (11) of the processed message, wherein the qualified certification server (17) includes an internal time generator (8).

Description

Technical field

The technical solution relates to an e-mail certification system comprising an e-mail sender terminal that is connectable to an outgoing e-mail server that is connectable to an incoming e-mail server to which the e-mail recipient terminal is connectable.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

The current state of electronic communication is basically based on the original principles of Internet connection of users, which emphasized the high variability of possible means of communication, but at the basic level was not defined for communication that would require a high degree of credibility or even the possibility of verification of such communication by some public authorities .

Known electronic communication systems include an e-mail sender terminal that is connectable to an outgoing e-mail server that is connectable to an incoming e-mail server to which the e-mail recipient terminal is connectable.

The outgoing mail server uses so-called. The “Simple Mail Transfer Protocol” (SMTP) and the incoming mail server use POP3 or IMAP protocol to access the addressee. The e-mail service provider works with the message exclusively at the outgoing or incoming e-mail server level, which is installed only on the basis of general standards, without emphasizing the validity of the information about the ongoing electronic communication.

Information about e-mail content, transmission time and transmission status is processed and stored only at local level of the sender and recipient of the message. In most cases, the record of the e-mail service provider is not traceable and its validity is always questionable.

The importance of electronic communication in today's society is increasing, as there is a shift from the classic “paper” contractual documentation to the implementation of a whole range of legal acts through standard electronic mail.

At present, however, e-mail does not give unambiguous verification of the content or time of submission. Doubts as to the content or timing of the sending of the e-mail then have a major impact on the conduct of the parties and at the same time on the legal certainty of the parties to the proceedings.

For the possibility of verified delivery of electronic messages is nowadays available eg. data mailbox information system operated by Česká pošta s. p., but this service is operated quite separately from the means of standard e-mail communication, it is realized through its own user interfaces and its percentage in common communication is quite minor. It does not allow to use standard communication e-mail clients, not only in terms of the tools of the creation of such communication, but also. document management services already established. The convenience of a data mailbox system is very low compared to the conventional e-mail communication.

Furthermore, the prior art makes possible by means of so-called " time stamp services (defined by Act No. 227/2000 Coll., on electronic signature) to capture exactly the time of origin and content of the file stored at the local level, eg. on the user's computer. However, the confirmed time of sending the e-mail message is not conclusive, since this procedure captures the moment of origin of the e-mail message, but it is done on the basis of information used from the local station of the sender, i. j. also according to the sender's station's system time. Furthermore, the dispatch is also not demonstrable, as it can be disputed that such a message has not been sold for dispatch, for example. an Internet connection error or an error in the server of the electronic communications service provider and thus has not arrived at the recipient, and these objections are not rebuttable in the prior art.

The aim of the technical solution is to design such a system that would enable the traditionally used electronic mail to be filtered. For the purposes of this application, certification means objective verification of the content and time of e-mail sending.

The essence of the technical solution

This object is achieved by an electronic mail certification system comprising an e-mail sender terminal that is connectable to an outgoing e-mail server that is connectable to an incoming e-mail server to which the recipient's e-mail terminal is connectable, the point is that the outgoing e-mail server is connectable to a qualified certification autonty server, and the outgoing e-mail server includes a block of e-mail message checksum processing behind

SK5027-2016 The U1 has a time stamp block and a standard message processing block sent to the qualified certification authority server including an internal time generator.

The advantage of the system according to the technical solution is that it allows to objectively and unambiguously confirm the content and time of sending electronic mail.

According to a preferred embodiment, the sender's own outgoing mail server is connected downstream of the e-mail sender terminal.

According to a preferred embodiment, the outgoing e-mail server includes an e-mail checksum processing block followed by a time-stamp message storage block and a standard sent message processing block, the e-mail checksum processing block and the message storage block they are linked to an internal time generator on the server of the qualified certification authority.

According to a further preferred embodiment, an email message authorization block is provided on the outgoing e-mail server prior to the e-mail checksum processing block, which is connected via a service user database to a time stamp registration database that is arranged on a qualified certification authority server.

According to another preferred embodiment, an outgoing e-mail message integrity block and a data store are arranged on the outgoing e-mail server downstream of the time stamp message block, and a peripheral for user authentication of the electronic stamp is connected to the internal time generator of the qualified certification authority server. The peripheral for user authentication of the electronic stamp is connectable with both the sender's terminal device and the data storage.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

Three examples of wiring of the e-mail certification system are schematically shown in FIG. 1, 2, 3 and 4.

EXAMPLES

An exemplary embodiment of a basic wiring of an e-mail certification system according to the technical solution of FIG. 1 includes an e-mail sender terminal 1, which may be any known technical device for sending and receiving e-mail, such as a mobile phone, tablet, Windows PC, Apple Macintosh, Linux, Android, etc.

The e-mail sender terminal 1 is connectable to the outgoing e-mail server 16 via the sender's connection 2 via the Internet (ADSL, GSM, WIFI). In the illustrated embodiment, the outgoing e-mail server 16 has the following parameters: CPU E5-2603 2.4GHz, RAM 16GB, HDD 2x 500GB SATA. The outgoing e-mail server 16 uses a " “Simple Mail Transfer Protocol” (SMTP).

The outgoing e-mail server 16 is connectable to the incoming e-mail server 13 via the recipient connection 12 via the Internet, which has the following parameters in the illustrated embodiment: CPU E5-2603 2.4GHz, RAM 16GB, HDD 2x 500GB SATA. The incoming e-mail server 13 uses a POP3 or IMAP protocol to access the recipient.

An incoming e-mail terminal 14 is connectable to the incoming e-mail server 13, as well as the e-mail sender 1 of any known technical means for sending and receiving e-mail, such as a mobile phone, tablet, PC with a Windows operating system. Apple Macintosh, Linux Android, etc.

The outgoing e-mail server 16 is connectable to a qualified certification authority server 17 that includes an internal time generator 8. In the illustrated embodiment, the qualified certification authority server 17 is operated by Czech Post and has the following parameters: CPU E5-2603 l-WH /,. ^RAM 1 ^{6GB HDD} 2x ^{500 gigabytes SAT} A. It ZRE ^j me ^that the qualified certification authority m ^Zu be other entities that meet predetermined requirements and receive appropriate authorization.

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SK5027-2016 U1

After sending the e-mail from any user terminal 1 via the sender's connection 2 to the outgoing mail server 16, a checksum-so-called check sum is generated in block 6 of the e-mail checksum processing. a hash that is sent to a qualified certification authority server 17 where a time stamp is attached to it in the internal time generator 8 and the time stamp e-mail message is sent to block 7 to store the time stamp message.

The e-mail thus processed is sent via the standard send block 11 and via the recipient's connection 12 to the incoming e-mail server 13 and from there to the recipient's end device 14.

A message acknowledgment can be sent to the sender, depending on the block-level service setting 7.

Another embodiment of the wiring of the e-mail certification system of FIG. 2 from the embodiment of FIG. 1 differs in that the outgoing e-mail server 16 has an e-mail authorization block 3 in front of block 6 of the e-mail checksum processing (hardware implemented E5-2603 2.4GHz CPU, RAM 16GB, HDD 2x 500GB SATA), which is connected through a database of 4 users of the service (hardware realized CPU E5-2603 2.4GHz, RAM 16GB, HDD 2x 500G SATA, database system MS SQL) connected with database 5 time stamp records (hardware implemented CPU E5-2603 2.4GHz, RAM 16GB, HDD 2x 500GB SATA, MS SQL database system) on server 17 of qualified certification authority.

E-mail is sent from any user terminal 1 via a sender connection 2 to an outgoing mail server 16 where the e-mail authorization database 4, the service user database 4, and the time stamp register database 5 verify the e-mail certification applicant's user permissions. Further processing of the e-mail message is the same as that of the embodiment of FIG. First

Another embodiment of the wiring of the e-mail certification system of FIG. 3, from the embodiment of FIG. 1 differs in that the outgoing e-mail server 16 has an e-mail integrity check block 9 behind the time stamp message block 7 (hardware-implemented CPU E5-2603 2.4GHz, RAM 16GB, HDD 2x 500GB SATA ) and data storage 10 (hardware implemented CPU E5-2603 1.8GHz, RAM 16GB, HDD24x WD RED RAID EDITON 3TB SATA). A peripheral 15 (such as a mobile phone, tablet, PC) for user authentication of the electronic stamp is connected to the internal time generator 8 of the CA server 17, and the peripheral 15 for user authentication of the electronic stamp is connectable to both the sender terminal 1 and data repository 10.

The processing of the e-mail message is the same as that of the embodiment of FIG. 1. The addition of the integrity check block 9 of the e-mail message and the data store 10 in combination with the peripheral 15 for the user authentication of the electronic stamp allows, in addition to the functions described in connection with the embodiment of FIG. 1, together with the message storage itself, checking the consistency of the stored data and verifying the validity of the time stamp, as well as the subsequent checking of the message delivery process at the outgoing mail server 16 and the incoming mail server 13. This check can also be performed by the sender of the message independently of the operator of the outgoing mail server 16 via the peripheral 15 for user authentication of the electronic stamp. The data store 10 of the email message, message timestamp, other attributes stores the entire set of data related to the sent message, which further allows the sender access and control or work according to defined stored message rules.

Another embodiment of the wiring of the e-mail certification system of FIG. 4, from the embodiment of FIG. 1 differs in that the sender has its own outgoing mail server 18 of the sender (hardware-implemented CPU 2x E5-2620 2.0GHz, RAM 64GB, HDD 2x 2TB SATA). The outgoing e-mail server 16 is connected as a relay SMTP server, superior to the sender's own outgoing e-mail server 18. The message is sent from the sender end device 1 to the outgoing e-mail server 16 via the sender's outgoing e-mail server 18. Further processing of the e-mail message is then the same as in the embodiment of FIG. First

SK5027-2016 U1

Sender reference list Sender connection Sender connection Email authorization block User database service Timestamp database Database Checksum processing block Email block Time stamp message block Internal time generator Email message integrity check block Data storage block standard sending processed message connection recipient server incoming e-mail server recipient terminal peripheral for user verification of electronic stamp outgoing e-mail server qualified certification authority server own outgoing sender server

Claims (5)

PROTECTION REQUIREMENTS An electronic mail certification system comprising an e-mail sender terminal (1) that is connectable to an outgoing e-mail server (16) that is connectable to an incoming e-mail server (13) to which a terminal device (14) is connectable ) of an e-mail recipient, characterized in that the outgoing e-mail server (16) is connectable to a qualified certification authority server (17) and the outgoing e-mail server (16) comprises an e-mail checksum processing block (6) after which a block (7) for storing the time stamp message and a block (11) of the standard sending of the processed message are connected in succession, wherein the qualified certification authority server (17) comprises an internal time generator (8). An electronic mail certification system according to claim 1, characterized in that an e-mail sender terminal (18) is connected downstream of the e-mail sender terminal (1). The electronic mail certification system of claim 2, wherein the e-mail checksum processing block (6) and the time stamp message storing block (7) are coupled to an internal time generator (8) on the server (17). ) of a qualified certification authority. E-mail certification system according to claim 2 or 3, characterized in that an e-mail authorization block (3) is arranged on the outgoing e-mail server (16) before the e-mail checksum processing block (6), which is connected via a service user database (4) to a time stamp registration database (5) arranged on a server (17) of a qualified certification authority. E-mail certification system according to claim 2 or 3, characterized in that an e-mail integrity check block (9) is arranged behind the block (7) for storing the time stamp message (9) behind the outgoing e-mail server (16). and a data store (10), wherein the peripheral (15) for the user authentication of the electronic stamp is connected to the internal time generator (8) of the server (17) of the qualified certification authority and the peripheral (15) for the user authentication of the electronic stamp. the sender device (1) as well as the data storage device (10).