Can CryptoMill SEAhawk be used to safely email attachments?
The e-mailing of a Secure Disk should be reserved for large data transmissions. At present the overhead for sending is about 4 MB, which can be ‘packed’ down to 2.4 MB, using a packing utility we provide. So, if a small file is being sent (say, a 50 KB Word document), encasing it in a SEAhawk Disk may not be the best option. You would receive the benefit of SEAhawk’s Protection and Containment, but with a fair amount of overhead. However, if the material you are sending is considerably larger, or has numerous files and folders as part of its structure (e.g. a project folder, with spreadsheets, time-lines, documents, and images), then the convenience of the SEAhawk Disk becomes more attractive. You receive the benefit of the Protection and Containment, and the user-friendly ‘drag-n-drop’ or ‘edit-in-place’ access to the data, all with a modest amount of overhead. It is prudent to create a SEAhawk disk only as large as the data (if it is larger than 4MB) you are sending since the actual
