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[https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GnuPrivacyGuardHowto Ubuntu GPG HowTo]
[https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GnuPrivacyGuardHowto Ubuntu GPG HowTo]
[http://www.gnupg.org/ GPG Main Website]
[http://www.gnupg.org/ GPG Main Website]
[https://support.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/kb/digitally-signing-and-encrypting-messages Mozilla Thunderbird Enigmail Info]
[https://support.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/kb/digitally-signing-and-encrypting-messages Mozilla Thunderbird Enigmail Info]

Revision as of 11:36, 11 September 2013

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

Links for setting up your software:

Ubuntu GPG HowTo

GPG Main Website

Mozilla Thunderbird Enigmail Info