Digital Signature Application for Email Security

Fear of official e-mail address you used and vilified by others to do evil? Do not be afraid you just use the PGP digital signature system that already famous. To use it with a free, e-mail client Mozilla Thunderbird and Enigmail program enhancements, will be happy to assist you. Here are ways to use: 1. Install Thunderbird If you do not already have an e-mail client Mozilla Thunderbird, then you need to install it first. Get a mail client program that is quite superb with free in http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/. Once obtained, install the program. Follow each step and make your e-mail you in it for this program can serve your e-mail transactions. Make sure the e-mail Incoming and Outgoing be processed smoothly. 2. Install the extension program Once Thunderbird is ready for use, install the extension program that is useful to carry out the PGP facilities. This extension program is Enigmail and GnuPG. You can get an extension program v0.91.0-tb-win32.xpi http://enigmail.mozdev.org/download.html site for Enigmail. To GnuPG version 1.4 on the site http://www.gnupg.org/download/index.html. Start the GnuPG binary file to install it. To install Enigmail, click on Tools | Extensions. After that, click the Install button and navigate to the program v0.91.0-tb-win32.xpi. When finished restart your Firefox, the file extension has been integrated.
3. Point Program GnuPG The next step is to direct the GnuPG program that was installed earlier for Thunderbird can always be used by you. Way, click Enigmail menu | Preferences, then the program settings menu will appear Enigmail. On the Basic tab there are fields GnuPG executable path. Fill this column with the path towards gpg.exe program, usually located in the directory Program Files \ GNU \ GnuPG \. Once completed, it would seem his path on that column. Click the OK button, then GnuPG will always run the program every transaction e-mail that out. 4. Create a New PGP Key The next question, did you have this digital signature? If not, you can make it from here. Way, click Enigmail menu | OpenPGP Key Management. After exit the settings menu, click Generate menu | New Key Pair, it will exit the settings. Pick up your e-mail that you want to make key, then fill Passphrase that serves as a password. You can comment on the Comment column. Expired any time this key you can set. So is the size of key. Use the key-size 1024 for the opening of the key faster. When finished click the Generate key and click Yes, then the key immediately made. 5. Make a File Every few seconds, then be your key. You will be offered a further option, which makes you kind of certificate for this key. The point is to ensure the correctness of your digital signature. This key can be sent to people who want to keep your keys or trying to prove the truth of your digital signature. This certificate is the form of a file format. ASC. To make it, on Enigmail Confirmation window, click the Yes button, then choose a folder to save it. After that, type it your passphrase and click OK, so the certificate. 6. Enable OpenPGP Facilities When everything is ready, now is the time to activate this OpenPGP facility for each time you send an e-mail through Thunderbird. Way, click menu Tools | Account Settings ... After the settings window appears, choose the option OpenPGP Security. Check the boxes inside the option Enable OpenPGP support (Enigmail) for this identity. After that, select the option Use specific OpenPGP key ID. Then check the option also sign a non-encrypted messages by default. When finished click OK, then every time sending e-mail you want to insert a digital signature that you have created. 7. E-mail with a Digital Signature Now, each time sending e-mail that you do, it will ask whether you want to send your digital signature or not. If yes, then you have to type his passphrase correctly. E-mail You may also be directly converted into text form. After everything is finished, then e-mail you send with digital signatures will be accepted by the recipient as well with digital signatures. Usually this digital signature in the form of random numbers. Or if your e-mail client program you support, then the random numbers can be immediately checked for validity. If true, it appears description Good Key. Good luck!

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