In this second article for the week on emails we look more closely at digitally signing and encrypting emails. In order to do either of those things you need to have a digital certificate installed into your email program. I therefore look at the step by step process of obtaining a free email certificate from Comodo and and the extra steps required to install it into Thunderbird (since obtaining the certificate automatically installs it for Outlook and Outlook Express).

With the certificate installed, being able to digitally sign emails is something that happens automatically. Encryption can also happen automatically if the other party also has an email certificate installed.

Email Certificates

Tags: digital certificate, digital certificates, emails, Encryption