German government decides to alternative e-mail.

E-mail can be cracked, it was full of viruses and spam and thus unfit for official letters, business and confidential post, finds the Interior Wolfgang Schäuble. Therefore, it is from 2010, the De-mail type - the bill was by now on its way.

 

Berlin - Until 2010, the federal government a new and supposedly most secure form of e-mail to introduce the so-called De-Mail. The will be as easy as sending a normal e-mail to a sideline, with the highest privacy and security policies, said on Wednesday the Ministry of Interior.

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Federal Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble: Strong interest in Internet and electronic communications - from online searches on data retention up to the state-prescribed mail encryption

The Cabinet decided on Wednesday the corresponding bill. It regulates the special security requirements that lead to that electronic mail is now also in the case of confidential or official documents as secure and reliable as paper mail.

"By 'De-mail' to be in Germany from 2010 messages and documents in secure, reliable and protected against spam sent over the Internet can be," the Interior Ministry reported. "With this internationally best project over Germany, a pioneer in the electronic business world."

The protection is where the need is still with commercial or freely available encryption programs like PGP or RSA algorithms based programs, as more than sufficiently safe. Sale, such as freedom of encryption systems, which are based on asymmetric cryptography, are considered to be almost unbreakable. Unencrypted e-mail, however, is with the simplest means out. The Ministry of the Interior would be a single default instead of competing systems, including security agencies can not access, preferred.

The state wants to be post-guard

By now the Cabinet approved the draft of the Citizens' Portal Act is reported to be a clearly defined security and privacy standards are required. Bids to be the 'De-Mail "only by" accredited, state-approved providers. " Responsibility is the Federal Office for Information Security to the Ministry of Interior.

"Everyone should be in a position to protect themselves from unwanted eavesdropping, theft of data, fraud on the Internet and spam to better protect," said Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble. Shopping, commercial and government programs on the Internet are now commonplace.

For the opening of "De-Mail" mailbox citizens must clearly identify, for example through the presentation of an identity. It aims to understand who the "secure communication channels" uses. Upon request, the sender is evidence confirming the receipt of the "De-Mail", the recipient will receive.

As well as the safe delivery of invoices, certificates, as well as contract and business records and confidential documents to be hoped the Government on savings. Citizens, businesses and administrations should be one to one and a half billion euros annually in costs can be avoided. That would be "De-Mail" also help to reduce bureaucracy, it is hoped the Ministry of Interior.

Mail system with after-Key?

The plans for
De-mail were in the autumn of 2008 has been ventilated. At that time concerns were raised that with the Ministry of quasi Bock to gardeners will be made when it comes to the integrity of e-mail communication to secure: Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble had in the past few years vehemently for the right of the state, citizens by online-trojan auszuforschen, and is also used as a great friend of the data retention. His plans were covered by the Federal limits were. What is left, went to the BKA Act and the restrictive rules for online searches one.

In connection with the De-mail data protectors had feared, their registration and notification procedures could be abused online trojan einzuschleusen. The organizers of the De-mail system had such concerns as exaggerated own them.

Criticism was also given out that, with German Telekom, the German Post Office and T-Systems, several former state-owned enterprises involved in this implementation, while major competitors of the former monopolies have been excluded.