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Ensure your privacy with encrypted e-mail; only those people to whose public key the message is encrypted to are able to read it. Learn more about signing and encrypting e-mail by consulting the documentation of your OpenPGP application.

 

Beware: Some governments may restrict encryption!

Beware: Although the algorithms used by OpenPGP are very safe and secure there is the possibility that a private key (needed for decryption) gets compromised!

 

 

Manually encrypting messages

 

Method No 1

 

1. Open a new message
2. Fill in the necessary header information
3. Go to Privacy->Enable OpenPGP (if not already enabled)
4. Then choose Privacy->Encrypt when Completed

 

Method No 2

 

1. Open a new message
2. Fill in the necessary header information
3. Go to Privacy->Enable OpenPGP (if not already enabled)
4. Then go to Privacy->OpenPGP
5. Choose your option:
· Encrypt Entire Text - encrypts your message
· Sign & Encrypt Entire Text - signs and encrypts the message

 

You can also sign your message from this menu.

 

 

Automatically encrypting messages

 

1. Go to Account->Properties->Options
2. At the bottom (Message Editor Settings) check Enable OpenPGP and Sign when Completed

 

You can also choose signing.

 

For another method look into the Templates and Macros chapters.

 

 

 

Related topics:

Signing your message with OpenPGP

Decrypting OpenPGP signed messages

Verifying OpenPGP signed messages

Adding OpenPGP public keys from a message

S/MIME

Templates

Macros