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Nabeena Ameen, Sumaiya Mubasshara .H, Fiza Hussain .M, “Securing Enterprise Emails in Cloud Platform”, Journal of Machine and Computing, vol.2, no.2, pp. 064-066, April 2022. doi: 10.53759/7669/jmc202202008.
