User's Manual

CryptoIdentity User Guide – 5. Working with CryptoIdentity and Applications
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To encrypt the e-mails:
• Obtain the digital credentials of the recipients for which you want to encrypt the e-mails.
Each certificate must be added into the Netscape Messenger Other People's Certificates
panel. To open the Other People's Certificates panel, Open the Security Info-
>Certificates->People section.
Once a digital certificate is contained into the Other People's Certificates
panel, it is possible to send encrypted e-mails addressed to the certificate
owner.
• There are two ways to obtain the digital credentials of a recipient and store them into
the Other People's Certificates panel:
By using Network Directory.
-To import a certificate of other people from Network Directory click on
Security info-> Other People’s Certificates->Search Directory button. From
the Network Directory it is possible to obtain the digital certificates of people
who has sent them to the directory.
-To send a certificate to the Network Directory, in order to make it available to
other people for encryption, click on Security Info->Messenger->Send
Certificate to Directory button. To learn more about Network Directory refer
to Netscape Messenger Help.
By receiving a signed e-mail from the recipient. Signing an e-mail usually appends
the digital certificate to the e-mail message.
-When a digitally signed e-mail is received and opened through Netscape
Messenger, the digital credentials are automatically added into the Other
People's Certificates panel.
Create a new message (select New Msg from the main menu)
In the Composition window, click the Options button and select the Encrypted option:
Fill in the recipient e-mail address and the subject fields and compose the message as
usually.