Goodmail Systems, Inc. Appoints Email and Security Luminaries to Newly Formed Technical Advisory Board

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., -- April 18, 2006-- Goodmail Systems(TM), creators of CertifiedEmail, the new class of trusted email to help shield consumers from online fraud and phishing, today announced that it has appointed three Internet email and security pioneers to its newly formed Technical Advisory Board: Dr. Martin E. Hellman, Dr. Aviel D. Rubin, and David H. Crocker. All are renowned experts whose pioneering efforts have defined the underlying principles of Internet and email communications and security.

"The formation of a Technical Advisory Board provides the opportunity for some of the best minds in their fields to collectively guide Goodmail's development efforts going forward," said Daniel Dreymann, Goodmail's senior vice president of product, engineering and operations. "We value their guidance as we move forward with our mission to restore trust in email."

Dr. Martin E. Hellman, Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, a world-renowned pioneer of cryptographic technology and policy said, "Goodmail has demonstrated a solid understanding of what's required to protect consumers through email messaging. Their use of digital signatures to certify email is exactly the kind of forward thinking email distributors and ISPs need to embrace." Dr. Hellman is well-known as one of the inventors of public key cryptography. He has been a long-time contributor to the computer privacy debate and in 1994 received the Electronic Frontier Foundation's (EFF) Pioneer Award.

Said Dr. Aviel D. Rubin, "My experience has helped me to understand that important forms of communications need proactive and strong solutions in order to protect consumers. Goodmail has created a solution and is putting it into action with the CertifiedEmail service and I am proud to be an advisor to the company." Dr. Rubin is Professor of Computer Science and Technical Director of the Information Security Institute at Johns Hopkins University. He is also editor of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, associate editor of ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, and associate editor of IEEE Security & Privacy. He was honored with the EFF's Pioneer Award, in 2004.

David H. Crocker is a principal with Brandenburg InternetWorking and author of many IETF Requests for Comments (RFC), including RFC 733 -- the first standard for Internet email -- and its revision, RFC 822, which remains the core reference for Internet mail formatting. Crocker was a co-recipient of the 2004 IEEE Internet award for his work on email. "Email has been my focus for the past 35 years," said Crocker. "Experiencing the
developmental changes, acceptance and importance of this form of communication has helped my thought process in looking towards 'what's next.' Being on the Goodmail Technical Advisory Board will allow me to contribute to a solution that will protect and improve this essential service."

About Martin E. Hellman

Dr. Martin E. Hellman, Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, is best known for his invention, along with Whitfield Diffie and Ralph Merkle, of public key cryptography. Hellman has also been a long-time contributor to the computer privacy debate, starting with DES's key size in 1975 and extending to service (1994-96) on the National Research Council's Committee to Study National Cryptographic Policy. His work in cryptography has been recognized by a number of honors and awards, notably the 1978 IEEE Information Theory Group's Best Paper Award, election as a Fellow of the IEEE (1980), the IEEE's 1981 award for the year's best tutorial paper, the EFF's 1994 Pioneer Award, the 1996 National Computer Systems Security Award, the 1997 Franklin Institute's Levy Medal, the 1997 ACM Kanellakis Award, the 2000 Marconi International Fellow Award, election to the National Academy of Engineering (2002), and election as a Fellow of the International Association for Cryptologic Research (2006). Hellman also has a deep interest in the ethics of technological development.

About Aviel D. Rubin

Dr. Aviel D. Rubin is Professor of Computer Science and Technical Director of the Information Security Institute at Johns Hopkins University. Professor Rubin directs the NSF-funded ACCURATE center for correct, usable, reliable, auditable and transparent elections. Prior to joining Johns Hopkins, Rubin was a research scientist at AT&T Labs. He is also a co-founder of Independent Security Evaluators (securityevaluators.com), a security consulting firm. Rubin is author of several books including Brave New Ballot (Random House, 2006) Firewalls and Internet Security, second edition (with Bill Cheswick and Steve Bellovin, Addison Wesley, 2003), White-Hat Security Arsenal (Addison Wesley, 2001), and Web Security Sourcebook (with Dan Geer and Marcus Ranum, John Wiley & Sons, 1997). He is Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Associate Editor of ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, Associate Editor of IEEE Security & Privacy, and an Advisory Board member of Springer's Information Security and Cryptography Book Series. Rubin serves on the DARPA Information Science and Technology Study Group. In January, 2004 Baltimore Magazine name Rubin a Baltimorean of the Year for his work in safeguarding the integrity of our election process, and he is also the recipient of the 2004 EFF Pioneer Award. Rubin has a B.S., ('89), M.S.E. ('91), and Ph.D. ('94) from the University of Michigan.

About David H. Crocker

Dave H. Crocker is a principal with Brandenburg InternetWorking. Crocker has been a vital contributor to email standards development since the early 1970s. The author of more than 45 Requests for Comments (RFC), his work includes RFC 733 -- the first standard for Internet email -- and its revision, RFC 822, which remains the core reference for Internet mail formatting. He also has played a major role in the development of standards for MIME (multipurpose) email, Internet facsimile, and Internet EDI, as well as contributing to work on network management, domain name service, and transport protocol service. Crocker's recent focus in the Internet standards arena is on messaging trust and reporting mechanisms. He has been designing network-based applications businesses and system architectures for more than thirty years, first in the ARPA research community and then commercially at MCI Mail and various Silicon Valley companies. His management roles, during the 1980s, covered email clients and servers, core protocol stacks for TCP/IP and OSI, network management control stations, and knowledge management tools for product support. Crocker was a co-recipient of the 2004 IEEE Internet award for his work on email.

About Goodmail Systems

Goodmail Systems makes CertifiedEmail™, the industry standard class of trusted email. CertifiedEmail provides a safe and reliable means for consumers to easily identify authentic email messages from legitimate commercial and nonprofit email senders. Each CertifiedEmail is sent with a cryptographically secure token that assures authenticity, and is marked in the inbox with a unique blue ribbon envelope icon, enabling consumers to visually distinguish email messages which are real and sent from email senders with whom they have a pre-existing relationship. Available to email senders meeting strict standards for best practices and low complaint rates, it is the only class of email available that assures delivery of all opt-in email messages to the inbox, with links and images automatically rendered intact, yielding measurable improvements in email campaign effectiveness. CertifiedEmail has been adopted by seven of the nation's top ten email mailbox providers, and is in use by 500 commercial, government and non-profit senders. It is supported in North America and Europe by a wide network of email platforms and service providers.

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