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== PGP - GPG - Pretty Good Privacy - Gnu Privacy Guard ==
Video walkthroughs that were shown in lecture and class and associated notes are posted [http://homeostasis.scs.carleton.ca/~soma/webfund-2013f/email-crypto/ here].
 
== 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.  

Revision as of 13:59, 18 September 2013

Video walkthroughs that were shown in lecture and class and associated notes are posted here.

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