New Ciphire proxy protocol for faster certificate and data lookups
Enhanced failover of Ciphire proxies in case of network problems
Enhanced caching of lookup responses
New signing option “Sign if encrypted” available as a global setting and as a per recipient setting
Support for SOCKS 5 proxies in order to access Ciphire servers/proxies (hostname and port number can be configured in the Ciphire Mail Options using Expert mode)
New certificate and key handling engine providing better performance and more detailed reporting about security warnings related to certificate validation.
Improved and faster account creation. Except for the challenge email that is used to verify the email address, all steps are now performed via a direct connection to a Ciphire server.
More detailed reporting about security warnings encountered while checking certificates and email messages. Instead of pop-ups, all security warnings are added to the body of the email message. Major security warnings are added to the top of the message while minor security warnings are added to the bottom. In addition, the subject report is set to “[Ciphire-warning]” or “[w]” respectively.
When receiving emails that cannot be verified because of any transient errors (e.g., network problems) the user now has the choice of receiving the messages in unverified form or to try again later.
New “individual address settings” to define if messages from a specific sender or domain are supposed to be encrypted or signed. If a message does not match the expected security status of a message a warning is added to the message.
New mechanism to export accounts via email using subject enforcer “x!” followed by account address (e.g., “x!alice@example.com”). Account data can be exported and send to any email address. If possible, Ciphire Mail will use Ciphire Mail encryption to secure the email messages. If this is not possible the user has to provide a password for securing the message. Old export messages created with Ciphire Mail 1.1 can still be imported, but not vice versa.
Enhanced support for passphrases containing Unicode/UTF-8 characters. However, this is still not recommended as Unicode characters may not work correctly when using the web-based Emergency Deactivation System to deactivate a Ciphire account.
Additional X-Ciphire headers in message header to allow mail clients and other third-party software to display status information about the message. In addition to “X-Ciphire-Report” these headers are X-Ciphire-Warning (if there was a warning), X-Ciphire-Encrypted-By, X-Ciphire-Encrypted-To, X-Ciphire-Signed-By, X-Ciphire-Signed-To, X-Ciphire-Signature-Time (ISO 8601 formatted timestamp).
New mode “Minimal” for automatic software updates
New mode “Extended” for fingerprint list checking
Enhanced Unicode support
Enhanced uninstallation mechanism
New format for account export files and account database files. Old files from Ciphire Mail 1.1 are still supported, but not vice versa. (Please note that you should avoid reverting your installation to an old 1.1 version. All accounts that have been created with 1.2 are not converted to the old 1.1 format, i.e., they would get lost. If you revert your installation, please delete the files “priv.db”, “priv.db.bak”, and “auth.db” from your Ciphire user directory, otherwise upgrading to 1.2 at a later time would not work correctly.)
Enhanced handling and processing of messages getting stored in the Ciphire Mail message queue.
Enforce certain limits on how many MIME parts are parsed in an email message.
Added workaround for mail clients and servers that do not handle messages with very large message headers correctly
More robust handling of non-RFC-compliant email messages
Linux: Syslog logging can be turned off completely. In order to do this add the configuration option “TR_SYSLOG=off” to “ciphire.conf”.
Windows: fixed failures when reactivating Ciphire Mail via tray icon
Various minor localization fixes
Various minor changes and bug fixes
Version 1.1.15 (Release Date: 14 September 2005) +
Added workaround for some mail server software that delivers invalid or corrupted email messages
Windows: minor changes to uninstaller
Mac: online help has been fixed
Linux: various localization fixes
Various minor changes
Version 1.1.9 (Release Date: 5 September 2005) +
Better handling of Ciphire signatures (non-western languages)
Internationalization: French (beta) available now
Additional encryption modes for individual recipient settings
Improved user interface
Queued mail issue resolved
Easier handling of software updates
More userfriendly uninstaller
Many minor improvements and bug fixes
Version 1.0 (Release Date: 28 June 2005) +
First official release of Ciphire Mail
Version 0.90.19 (Release Date: 23 June 2005) +
Cleanup of logging and pop-up messages
Windows: Bug fix for tray icon handling during startup
Mac: Bug fix for automatic software update
Version 0.90.7 (Release Date: 15 June 2005) +
Cleanup of logging and pop-up messages
Bug fixes in message log application
Bug fixes for tray icon animation
And some other minor bug fixes
Version 0.90.5 (Release Date: 2 June 2005) +
Minor bugfixes
Version 0.90.3 (Release Date: 24 May 2005) +
Minor UI improvements
Improvement in signature handling
Mac: IMAP fix for Apple Mail (Tiger)
Version 0.90.2 (Release Date: 19 May 2005)
New and improved signature format (not backwards compatible with older versions)
Customizable signature text
Enhanced handling of multiple signatures
Redesign of the complete user interface
Easier account creation wizard
Clean-up of Ciphire options (simple mode)
Virus check support for decrypted messages (write to disk)
Improved preview of message with IMAP4 and POP3
Support for Ciphire gateways and domain certificates
Windows: Native Windows tray icon
Windows: Option to deactivate Ciphire Mail
Outlook: better handling of large encrypted messages
Many bugfixes, minor improvements and changes
Version 0.11.29 (Release Date: 03 Mar 2005) +
Less intrusive defaults for incoming mail markup
Configuration to only mark secured/signed messages
Speed improvements when scanning big IMAP folders
Opening options screen without active key possible
Mac: Menu icon is disabled until Ciphire Mail is running
Mac: Eliminated broken floating icon
Mac: Animation fix for Mail.app
Mac: Optimisation for automatic software update
Mac: Multiple user handling improved
Windows: Explanation for manual upgrade added: First uninstall
Several minor bugfixes
Version 0.11.11 (Release Date: 19. Feb. 2005)
Improved first popup after installation Add/Import/Wait
Mac: improved installer
Mac: improved activity icon handling with mail.app
Mac: optimized crypto libraries, factor 6x speedup for encrypted/signed emails
Version 0.11.6 (Release Date: 17. Feb. 2005)
Smart system mail handling on windows might have caused receiving the same mail multiple times – fixed
Smart system mail handling, especially for IMAP, improved
Integrity check tuned to only run during software updates
Mac: Startup time optimized
Mac: Some fixes for new installer and layout
Version 0.11.0 (Release Date: 11. Feb. 2005)
Tagging of outgoing emails disabled by default
SMTP parsing improved for exotic MTAs
SMTP timeout prevention improved
Queued mail problem in SMTP authentication fixed
A »remember passphrase« feature has been added
Passphrase timeout can be configured
Fixed »Cancel« button behaviour of passphrase popup
Major rework of software update system
Software update is not anymore instantaneous
Tagging of incoming emails with IMAP4 was fixed
Added X-Ciphire-Report header, for sorting/filtering
Some POP3 parsing fixes for exotic MTAs
The 2h delay on uninstall was removed
Uninstallation system revamped
New/changed SSL/TLS certificates from mail server are now shown
Windows: Icon behavior has been vastly improved
Windows: works now with McAfee and EZ Anti-Virus
Windows: network redirector mechanism further improved
Windows: will now detect network hickups in drivers on the fly
Linux: new installer supporting more platforms
Linux: improved support for automated software updates
Mac: new installer
Mac: full support for automated software updates
Version 0.10.51 (Release Date: 25. Jan. 2005)
4x speedup for IMAP folder operations
fixed another Yahoo SMTP related problem
SSL .mac and Exchange issue fixed
improved integration with other applications
Mac: reduced CPU usage dramatically, also no spikes in CPU usage anymore unless you are using Norton applications
Version 0.10.49 (Release Date: 21. Jan. 2005)
fixed Yahoo SMTP problem, if you applied the ‘Yahoo Fix’ workaround before, please undo it again
improved SMTP timeout prevention
fixed a problem with mail handling when loosing the network connection while sending
fixed multiple mail server names problem. GMX/T-Online smart mail handling improved.
BCC signing bug fixed
IMAP delete success email without user delete(fix)
replaced “GMT” by “UTC” in email signatures
disable the ‘uncheck’ remove old sigs in the options for now
the HELO localhost problem, mostly experienced with thunderbird
fixed a pop/imap SSL problem with MS Exchange
Linux: improved installer, will need more work
Windows: adding wow.exe in the conf file
Version 0.10.45 (Release Date: 13. Jan. 2005)
and yet another timzone issue fixed, this time on linux, right before midnight, in the GMT zone
Version 0.10.43 (Release Date: 12. Jan. 2005)
an issue with southern hemisphere daylight-saving timezones on Windows XP during account/key creation was fixed
now as well working around an OL2002 problem where in SMTP the ciphire client was answering too fast for OL to notice
Version 0.10.41 (Release Date: 11. Jan. 2005)
a stall when using the ‘Wait’-option on initial install with IMAP was fixed
a rare MAC OS X issue with timezones letting account/key creation fail was fixed
Version 0.10.39 (Release Date: 11. Jan. 2005)
10ms delay in smtp dialog to counter an internal Outlook2002 problem
text change for obsolete chal. mails
text change for secure new account popup yes/no/never
new skin for windows installer
minimize button on panel popups
Mac: fixed very rare installation problem
Version 0.10.26 (Release Date: 5. Jan. 2005)
a problem with the LITERAL tag in IMAP was fixed
a rare crash on empty quoted printable mails was fixed
on MAC
ciphire-msg will use less mem and cpu now
Version 0.10.22 (Release Date: 23.12.04)
signature text was shortened
Version 0.10.13 (Release Date: 21.12.04)
initial 0.10.xx series release
Notes: –
(+) Version is available via automatic update
