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.
Categories: "Computer security"
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As a big fan of crypto, it has always rather amazed me that S/MIME hasn't had more success. We hear many accounts of users cannot handle the certificate management required to make something like PGP or S/MIME work. I have been doing some experiments and have concluded that we got it wrong; we are blaming the user when the right person to blame is ourselves. This post describes the first step of success, what it takes to "get a key".
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