Encrypting emails

Encrypting emails

Encrypt an email and send it to Adele (or another person).

Open your email program and write a message (if you are sending the message to Adele, any text will do as Adele cannot actually read ...)

Highlight the text and copy it onto your clipboard (Windows) using the copy function or the Ctrl-C shortcut.

Right click on the WinPT icon on your Windows Taskbar and select Clipboard -> Encrypt.

You should now see a window containing the keys on your key ring. Using the examples featured in this manual, you would see Adele's key (the one she sent to you), as well as your own key, which you created in Chapter 2 (FIXME: Use dynamic reference).

Click on Adele's key to encrypt the message you just composed, keeping in mind the following principle:

In order to send someone encrypted emails, you need to have that person's public key in order to encrypt the message properly.

Clicking on [OK] starts the encryption process, which will be confirmed by the program if successful.

The encrypted message can be found on your computer's clipboard, from which you can copy it into the email window. You can erase the unencrypted text or just copy and paste the contents of the clipboard.

It will look something like this:

Now send your email to Adele. Remember to use your proper email address (rather than the practice email) otherwise you will not receive a response.

Congratulations! You have just encrypted your first email!

Encrypting emails