Easy-TimeShare Is Truly Secure

If you work with confidential personal or corporate data, you can rest assured that the our methods will protect it from prying Internet eyes. Our encryption option, available at a very low cost per connected user, gives you secure encrypted transmission of data over the Internet.

Our connectivity package uses the inherent encryption properties embedded within Internet Explorer 4.0. For authentication and session setup, we use 1024 keys. There is no report of this size of key having been broken at all. For telnet, we support the DES1 56 bit standard for worldwide use, and DES3 168 bit for use within the USA, or for authorized use abroad. DES3 is believed un-crackable with current technology. While a single DES1 key can be broken with about 30 supercomputer hours worth of work, using equipment costing millions, we also take other precautions: every connected user gets a different key. Is it worth the effort of a government to spend days so that they can read a just a few of your transactions?

For web based access, we support optional RC-4, with what ever key your browser software supports. Within the USA, the available key for most browser software is 128 bit, which is theoretically "uncrackable." Outside of the USA, only 40 bit keys are exportable. However, third parties in other countries can provide web browser security modules with up to 128 bit key support. Secure Web Browsing is application dependent. You can write some of your applications to require no security, and you can write others to specifically require 128 bit security. Such highly secure pages are not even available to browsers which do not support the higher standards.

The encrypted connectivity option is but the secure link to secure ends. Easy-TimeShare includes efficient purpose-built proxying and fire-walling at both ends. On our server side, the proxy system is explicitly closed down to all but authenticated Easy-TimeShare, Web and mail traffic, assuring that data is secure on the server side. On the users' side, we also provide a proxy firewall connection, limiting Internet access to your network to only those classes of traffic you specify.