The step-by-step guide to setting up Outlook so you can send signed and/or encrypted emails (for free)

Scott Elkin - Make Your Emails Stand Out Using Personal E-mail Certificates

“Notice the red badge on each envelope and the blue lock in the image below? 

The red badge tells me that the person is who they say they are, and the blue lock tells me that the message is encrypted.

Not only is this functionally important, but it really makes their email stand out and appear important.

This is accomplished by the use of a Personal E-mail Certificate, and is pretty easy to make work once you know the basics.

1.  In order to “digitally sign” your emails going out, you first need to find a provider to issue you one.  I used Thawte, which offers one for free:

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Scott’s 15 step guide will get you setup so you can send signed and/or encrypted emails from Outlook. The setup and key exchange is the “hard” part. Once you’re setup, and for encryption you’ve exchanged keys, it’s drop dead easy to send and receive signed/encrypted emails.

As I’ve said in the past;

IMPORTANT NOTE: Don’t loose your Certificates (your Private key)! Without that you WILL NOT be able to open those encrypted emails that were sent to you (or that you sent)…

 

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