WebFund 2013F Lecture 2

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