Secure Mail Functionality

The following is a brief list of the most important functional elements in Secure Mail

Internet Document Transfer

Commonly, documents are transferred over the Internet using either e-mail or FTP. Neither is acceptable, from several points of view. Firstly, neither provides any information on the success of the transfer. E-mail is, of course, the least communicative and for this reason is completely unacceptable. Both, however, are completely insecure. Not only in terms of the possible interception of the document, but also in terms of document integrity. With both methods there is no assurance that the document as received is identical to the one transmitted.

Lava Secure Mail uses a proprietary document transfer protocol which not only uses a segmented double encryption algorithm to ensure complete security, but also uses a comprehensive summating cyclic redundancy check to guarantee that the document at source is identical - to the last bit - with the document received at the target. Either the document arrives completely intact, or the sender is informed of failure.

Electronic Documents

Comprehensive support is provided for electronic documents and files, of any type or size - documents of up to 100 MB or more can be transmitted securely. If the Document Search module is licensed, documents of several types are automatically indexed on insertion for ease of retrieval.

Document Vault

Documents and files are stored in the Lava Vault. Documents are stored as individual files on the server, and not as blobs in the database - this presents additional reliability as well as data independence. The database maintains both document groups and creation date and timestamps as well as user maintainable attribute fields for locating documents subsequent to insertion.