HyperSend is as easy as email, yet fundamentally more secure. Exchanging
critical information through Internet email exposes you to many security risks.
Email transmission methods allow messages to be lost, waylaid, intercepted, or
faked, and copies of your messages may remain on various servers along the way.
HyperSend achieves secure, reliable, fast, and trackable delivery by relying
on the secure data transfer protocols used by web browsers (HTTPS and SSL).
Unlike email, which comes to rest on mail server after mail server as it makes
it way through the Internet, every HyperSend delivery is sent as a secure,
encrypted stream of data directly to the HyperSend servers. Copies of your
correspondence never exist on mail servers, nor do they remain on the HyperSend
servers after delivery.
Each time you send, receive or track deliveries, HyperSend establishes a
user-authenticated and encrypted connection between your PC and the HyperSend
servers, using the same robust security measures used to protect financial
transactions on the Internet: industry-standard SSL (Secure Sockets Layer)
protocol.
For authentication and encryption, the HyperSend servers use a VeriSign Global
Site certificate. VeriSign Global Site certificates support 128-bit SSL. HyperSend achieves the most
secure connections possible for users with browsers that support 128-bit
encryption, and also supports secure connections with browsers that support
only 40-bit encryption. (If your browser supports only 40-bit encryption, you
can enhance the security of your web browsing and HyperSend deliveries by
obtaining a free update from
Microsoft
or Netscape.)
HyperSend relies on passwords for user authentication. To guard against
password theft or interception, HyperSend uses respected methodologies for
the secure storage and exchange of passwords. Even HyperSend server
administrators do not know your password, because passwords are stored in an
unreadable form (a one-way hash using the MD5 hash algorithm). When you log in,
your password is sent through an encrypted connection. The HyperSend servers
process the received password (using the MD5 hash algorithm and an arbitrary
salt value) and compare the result with the stored form. Only if the two match,
are you admitted.
For additional security, you can enclose your deliveries in an Encrypted
Envelope that only the recipient can open. Encrypted Envelopes use the widely
respected Blowfish encryption algorithm, already proven in more than 130
security products. You are prompted for a secret word or phrase used to
encrypt the delivery on your PC before it is transmitted to the server. The
delivery remains encrypted on the HyperSend servers. When it arrives at the
recipient's PC, the recipient must enter the same secret word or phrase to
open and decrypt the delivery.
The HyperSend web servers, located in data centers of a top-tier Internet
provider, are protected around the clock by armed guards, and employ
state-of-the-art security procedures to guard against electronic intrusion.
The data centers are located in close proximity to the Internet backbone and
staffed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to ensure prompt delivery of your
critical business information.
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