Thawte email encryption
The last post talked about GPG4WIN. I have found another source of certificates. Thawte will allow you to create a personal account for free. Once logged in you can request a security certificate. After a minute or two your certificate will be ready. I’m running Windows XP and Outlook Express, not to mention the virus scanners and other security measures in place. All I had to do was to click on the certificate on the Thawte web page and it automatically installed while I followed the prompts. Nice and easy.
Thawte and GPG4WIN can be used together when you exchange files by email for added security. After you have your e-pals GPG4WIN public key and Thawte public key, you can encrypt the file easily with GPG4WIN and then add the encrypted file attachment to your email. When you have Outlook encrypt too there will be two keys to break to get into the attachment.
It would be good to point out to not use the same password on both keys.
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