[Fed-Talk] Secure email with Mac and iOS
[Fed-Talk] Secure email with Mac and iOS
- Subject: [Fed-Talk] Secure email with Mac and iOS
- From: Todd Heberlein <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 10:45:09 -0700
Not a bad article on securing your email. The whole process (including getting the certificate, getting it into your keychain, and (worse) getting it to your iOS device) still seems overly complicated, but after that it seems pretty painless.
How to secure your e-mail under Mac OS X and iOS 5 with S/MIME
Once you've installed a certificate under Mail on the Mac, you can then compose a message with a From: address that matches the e-mail address in the cert. Here, you have the option of encrypting and/or signing your new message. Encryption is toggled using a lock icon and signing with a checkmark icon. Note that these settings carry over to subsequent messages. Signing requires access to your private key, so depending on your keychain settings, you may have to type your password. Encrypting, on the other hand, (only) requires the certificate of the person you're e-mailing. Mail automatically adds all the certificates found in signed messages you've received to your keychain. So if you don't have someone's cert, just ask them to send you a signed message.
Todd
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