WebFund 2013F Lecture 2
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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
Links for setting up your software: