Inventors:
Binh Le - San Jose CA, US
Erik Chen - San Carlos CA, US
Michael Oswall - Berkeley CA, US
Adam Dawes - San Carlos CA, US
Joseph Green - San Francisco CA, US
Kenneth Okumura - Sunnyvale CA, US
Scott Petry - Palo Alto CA, US
Lisa Lund - San Francisco CA, US
International Classification:
H04L 9/32
Abstract:
Disclosed are systems and methods for providing transport layer encryption with an intermediate electronic message managing service interposed in a message path of an electronic message to be sent from a sending server to an intended receiving server across a computer network. To implement TLS in such a managed e-mail services context, given that a managed e-mail service is inserted into the message delivery path, the transport layer security protocols are simultaneously established along both the link from the sending server to the managed e-mail service and from the receiving server to the managed e-mail service, with the managed e-mail service providing a “proxy” connection for communication between the sending server and the receiving server.