PersonalSign: Outlook 2001 for Mac
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Installing your Certificate in Outlook
- After installing your certificate in Internet Explorer, it will be available for use in Outlook 2003. To use your certificate in Outlook 2003, do the following:
- Choose 'Tools' in the Outlook menu bar
- Choose 'Options'
- Choose the 'Security' tab
- To define your security settings and to specify which certificate you wish to use you need to define your default security settings. To do so you need to click the 'Change Settings' button. You will then receive the following screen :
- You can create different security settings and give these separate names. You can define the following settings :
- Secure Message Format (type of e-mail)
- Digital Signature Settings
- Encryption Settings
- To change the default encryption / signing settings click 'Ok…' button to receive the following screen:
The 'Digital Signature' settings allow you too choose a certificate which will be used to sign your emails. You need to click the 'Choose…' button to receive the following screen :
Digitally signing your e-mail messages with 2001 For Mac
The first step to securing your e-mail messages is to sign them using your digital certificate. Your digital signature enables the recipient of your message to verify that you actually sent the message and that it was not altered along the message route.
When you sign your message, it doesn't mean that nobody can intercept or read your message. Signing a message does not affect the contents of the message in any way or protect the message from being intercepted and read by someone other than the intended recipient. To ensure that only the recipient can read a message, you must also encrypt the message.
If the recipient of your signed message uses an S/MIME-enabled e-mail package, he can still read your message. In that case, your digital signature shows up as an attachment. The signed icon shows that the received message was signed.
The untrusted signature icon shows that the received message was signed by a certificate which was issued by a CA which you do not trust yet (because you have not installed its root certificate). This icon looks as follows:
To encrypt your message you need to have a copy of the digital certificate of the intended recipient. When you receive a signed message, you can save the certificate of the sender in your Contacts List. You need to create an entry in the Contacts List if you want to send encrypted email to that person. You must also import his digital certificate into the Contacts List.
You can also find someone's certificate in the online directory of the certification authority (GlobalSign,…)
