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== PGP - GPG - Pretty Good Privacy - Gnu Privacy Guard ==
== PGP - GPG - Pretty Good Privacy - Gnu Privacy Guard ==


== S/MIME - Secure Multimedia Internet Mail Extensions==  
== S/MIME - Secure Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions==  


This lecture should give an overview of the encryption of email, and what it means to apply a digital signature to an email message. There will be video demonstrations of how to setup both S/MIME and PGP on an Ubuntu machine with Thunderbird.  
This lecture should give an overview of the encryption of email, and what it means to apply a digital signature to an email message. There will be video demonstrations of how to setup both S/MIME and PGP on an Ubuntu machine with Thunderbird.  

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PGP - GPG - Pretty Good Privacy - Gnu Privacy Guard

S/MIME - Secure Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions

This lecture should give an overview of the encryption of email, and what it means to apply a digital signature to an email message. There will be video demonstrations of how to setup both S/MIME and PGP on an Ubuntu machine with Thunderbird.

The RFCs that relate to the topics presented will include:

RFC 821 : SMTP - simple mail transfer protocol

RFC 5652: CMS

RFC 2440: OpenPGP Message Format

RFC 3851: S/MIME 3.1