Key-Exchange

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There are two common problems with secure encryption - creating a secure password and delivering it to the person who will receive your encrypted messages. Some tips on creating secure passwords are included in the User Guide and passwords can be mailed or delivered by phone. However, the most secure passwords should be long (up to 56 characters with our products) and random. This makes them very difficult to deliver verbally with any accuracy.

Key-Exchange (patent pending), not only creates full strength random passwords, it also delivers them securely by normal email. Key-Exchange is easy to use and very secure. There are two parts to the process, obtaining a Transfer-Key and conducting a Key-Exchange. Here is how it works.

Transfer-Key
Every user must obtain a Transfer-Key before using the Key-Exchange system. This is a 3 step one-time process.

  • Go to the Register page to sign-up for your Transfer-Key (its free).
  • On sign-up a random password key, your "Transfer-Key", is created for you and displayed in a secure web page.
  • Follow the simple onscreen instruction to 'pickup' your Transfer-Key and have it automatically placed into your program's Password Book.

Thats all there is to the first part of the process. Now any passwords created by Key-Exchange will be encrypted with your unique Transfer Key before being emailed to you. You can now begin to use Key-Exchange. Details on how this works follow.

Key-Exchange
Key-Exchange will create and deliver a maximum strength password that only you and a person you specify will possess. Here is how this works.

  • Go to the "Conduct a Key-Exchange" page
  • Enter your email address and specify whether you are using A-Lock or PC-Encrypt (this will determine how the password will be delivered).
  • Enter the email address of the person with whom you wish to share a secure password.
  • Click "Create and Deliver Password".
Thats all there is to it. The new password will be encrypted with your Transfer-Key and emailed to you and also encrypted with the other person's Transfer-Key and emailed to that person. The recipient of an encrypted password simply decrypts it with their A-Lock or PC-Encrypt program and it is automatically placed in the program's password book for ongoing use. Simple, secure and safe.

Group Password You may wish to share a password with more than one person. This is called a Group Password and it is a unique feature of Key-Exchange. Instead of entering just one email address to share the password, you name as many email address as you wish (one per line). This time a new window will pop up asking for a name for the group you are creating. The name can be anything that identifies the group in your Password Book (for example "Project A Group"). All persons with the email addresses you specify will receive the same password encrypted with their private Transfer-Key. This feature is useful for delivering a secure message to a group of people.



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