After writing a 3 part series on purchasing and using S/MIME certificates with Microsoft Outlook 2016, some months went by I started receiving certficate renewal emails from Entrust. The first encouragement to renew arrived at 90-day warning, then 60, 30 and finally, 10. This post reviews the Entrust renewal process and describes that it is actually a new certificate purchase, not a renewal and describes the configuration changes required to configure Microsoft Outlook to use the “renewal” certificate rather than the expiring certificate.
Phishing is popular activity in evil circles. Avoiding HTML and rich-text formatted email is a level of defense; one that I've taken on recently as a matter of security hygiene. This post describes how to configure Microsoft Office 2016 to read and send all email as text, and discusses some of the opportunities lost in not well distinguishing good guys from bad guys.
Setting up a secondary FTP account for GoDaddy CPanel hosting requires different configuration than I expected. The trick is that while the primary FTP account uses SFTP, the secondary accounts need to be configured for FTP over TLS. This was a large enough headache for me that I share the details here so some others may be able to avoid the same issue.
In parts 1 and 2 of this series, I reviewed the difficult process of purchasing a personal certificate to use with S/MIME and the lengthy process required to get that certificate installed where Microsoft Outlook 2016 can use it for S/MIME signed email. This post will show how to send your public key to friends, where you and they can then finally send email encrypted with S/MIME.
n Part-1 of this series, I described the process of purchasing and installing a personal certificate. In my case, certificate was purchased from Entrust and I noted that once the purchase process was complete, the certificate exists for use in the Internet Explorer web browser, but that is all. With the purchase done, Microsoft Outlook will not yet utilize the certificate for purposes of S/MIME encrypted and signed email.