Why?
By using a digital ID to sign all your outgoing messages, the recipients can be sure that the sender is indeed yourself, and that the message is not a fake one. In addition, digitally signed messages can be encrypted, so that only the intended recipients are able to read them.
These facilities are critical for internet-based commerce, as well as for the interchange of sensitive data. But at the same time, the digital signature is not targeting only corporate users, because home users can apply it too.
A significant privacy enhancer is Dekart Cryptographic Provider. This tool will allow you to use a special key which is needed when an email is digitally signed and/or encrypted. Without the key, one will NOT be able to digitally sign emails on your behalf. The key is needed when you have to open an encrypted email you have previously received.
Summary
Once you configure TheBat! to use a digital ID, you get the following advantages:
Other facts
How
First of all, you should get yourself a free digital ID by visiting this site: https://inside.dekart.com/digital_id/ Fill in all the blanks with your personal data. Make sure that you typed in your email address correctly, as the certificate will be sent there. Choose Microsoft Enhanced Cryptographic Provider v1.0 from the list, and press Request Certificate.
Once the certificate is successfully installed on your system, you will have to configure TheBat! to use the Microsoft CryptoAPI instead of its internal implementation.
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Tips
This means that all the unsigned messages you receive will be deleted. This is the most efficient and accurate spam-protection. But note that all your friends and colleagues will have to get themselves a free certificate too (any certificate will do, not only the free certificates offered by Dekart).
How to use the Cryptographic Provider:
Next time you perform an operation that somehow involves certificates, you will be asked to insert your key (either smart card, or USB flash disk, or token, etc), only after that the operation will be able to successfully continue.
Q&A
No. Unfortunately, web-based email services are unable to operate with encryption or certificates. The problem is that the certificate has to be installed on your computer. This digital ID contains your encryption keys, this is what allows the messages to be decrypted or encrypted. In the case of web-based email, storing your certificate on a remote computer would ruin the whole concept of security, because the digital ID is supposed to be 'tied' to its owner.
No, the entire process works in the same way with any mail client. In other words, your digitally signed or encrypted email, sent with TheBat! can be decrypted by a recipient who uses Outlook or Thunderbird, or any other email client that supports the digital signature.
When you send an email, its contents is encrypted with the recipient's public key, which means that the message can be read only if the private key of the recipient is available. This is how encryption works. You will not be able to read the messages you have already sent. However, you should look at the bright side – this will teach you to be careful with what you write, so that you won't have to re-read your emails multiple times after sending them.
You need to add Dekart to your trusted authorities list, follow these steps to do that:
Additional information:
kb.mozillazine.org/Thunderbird_:_FAQs_:_Install_an_SMIME_Certificate
kb.mozillazine.org/Thunderbird_:_FAQs_:_Import_CA_Certificate
This is not a problem, anyone can get a free certificate from Dekart by visiting this page: https://inside.dekart.com/digital_id/
Contact us if you did not receive the registration key after your purchase
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