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These days when e-mail has become the main means of personal and business communication and stealing information is what trade secret crimes thrive on, the problems of securing email and safeguarding privacy are on everyone's mind. Even if your job does not imply sending your company's secrets that need to be protected from unwanted eyes, you may look for a little personal privacy. Whatever your reason is, the most reliable ways to secure your communications with co-workers, friends and family are mail encryption and digital signatures. Outlook email encryption protects the contents of your messages against unauthorized reading, while a digital signature ensures that your original message has not been modified and comes from a certain sender. Encrypting email it Outlook may sound like a daunting task, but it is actually quite simple. There exist a few methods of sending secure emails in Outlook, and further on in this article we are going to dwell on the basics of each:. Get a Digital ID for Outlook (encryption and signing certificates) To be able to encrypt important Outlook e-mails, the first thing you need to get is a Digital ID, also known as E-mail Certificate.

You can get the digital ID from one of the. You will be able to use these IDs not only to send secure Outlook messages, but protect documents of other applications as well, including Microsoft Access, Excel, Word, PowerPoint and OneNote, versions 2016, 2013, 2010 and 2007.

Note: Please keep in mind that most of the services are paid and charge either monthly or yearly fee. If you are looking for a free digital ID, check out, they provide a free Email Certificate (S/MIME) that will protect your Outlook emails both with encrypting and digitally signing. The process of getting a Digital ID depends on which service you have opted for. Typically, an ID is provided in the form of an executable installation that will automatically add the certificate to your system. Once installed, your digital ID will become available in Outlook and other Office applications.

How to set up your e-mail certificate in Outlook To verify whether a digital ID is available in your Outlook, perform the steps below. I will explain how this is accomplished in Outlook 2010, though it works exactly in the same way in Outlook 2013 and Outlook 2016, and with insignificant differences in Outlook 2007. So hopefully you won't have any problems to configure your encryption certificate in any Outlook version.

Switch to the File tab, then go to Options Trust Center and click the Trust Center Settings button. In the Trust Center dialog window, select E-mail Security. On the E-mail Security tab, click Settings under Encrypted e-mail. Note: If you already have a digital ID, the settings will be automatically configured for you. If you want to use a different e-mail certificate, follow the remaining steps.

In the Change Security Settings dialog window, click New under Security Setting Preferences. Type a name for your new digital certificate in the Security Settings Name box.

Make sure S/MIME is selected in the Cryptography Format list. Most digital IDs are of SMIME type and most likely this will be the only option available to you. If your certificate type is Exchange Security, choose it instead. Click Choose next to Encryption Certificate to add your digital cert to encrypt e-mails. Note: To find out whether the certificate is valid for digital signing or encryption, or both, click the View Certificate properties link on the Select Certificate dialog box. Typically, a certificate purposed for cryptographic messaging (such as Outlook email encryption and digital signing) says something like ' Protects email messages'.

Select the Send these certificates with signed messages check box if you are going to send Outlook encrypted email messages outside of your company. Then click OK and you are done! Tip: If you want these settings to be used by default for all encrypted and digitally signed messages you send in Outlook, select the Default Security Setting for this cryptographic message format check box. How to encrypt email in Outlook Email encryption in Outlook protects the privacy of messages you send by converting them from readable text into scrambled enciphered text. To be able to send and receive encrypted email messages, you need two basic things:. Digital ID (encryption email certificate). We have discussed how to and in the first part of the article.

Share your public key (which is part of the certificate) with the correspondents you wish to receive encrypted messages from. See the step-by-step instructions on. You need to share the certificates with your contacts because only the recipient who has the private key that matches the public key the sender used to encrypt the email can read that message.

In other words, you give your recipients your public key (which is part of your Digital ID) and your correspondents give you their public keys. Only in this case you will be able to send encrypted emails to each other. If a recipient who does not have the private key matching the public key used by the sender tries to open an encrypted e-mail, they will see this message: ' Sorry, we're having trouble opening this item. This could be temporary, but if you see it again you might want to restart Outlook.

Your Digital ID name cannot be found by the underlying security system.' So, let's see how sharing digital IDs is done in Outlook. How to add a recipient's digital ID (public key) To be able to exchange encrypted messages with certain contacts, you need to share your public keys first. You start by exchanging (not encrypted!) with the person to whom you want to send encrypted emails. Once you get a digitally signed email from your contact, you have to add the contact's digital ID certificate to his/ her contact item in your Address Book. To do this, please follow the steps below:.

In Outlook, open a message that is digitally signed. You can recognize a digitally signed message by a Signature icon. Right-click the sender's name in the From fields, and then click Add to Outlook Contacts. When the person is added to your Outlook contacts, their digital certificate will be stored with the contact's entry. Note: If you already have an entry for this user in your Contacts list, select Update information in the Duplicate Contact Detected dialog. To view the certificate for a certain contact, double-click the person's name, and then click the Certificates tab.

Once you have shared the Digital IDs with a certain contact, you can send encrypted messages to each other, and the next two sections explain how to do this. How to encrypt a single email message in Outlook In an email message you are composing, switch to the Options tab Permissions group and click the Encrypt button. Then send the encrypted email as you usually do in Outlook, by clicking the Send button. Yep, it is that easy: ) If you don't see the Encrypt button, then do the following:. Go to Options tab More Options group and click the Message Options Dialog Box Launcher in the lower corner. In the Properties dialog window, Click the Security Settings button. In the Security Properties dialog window, check the Encrypt message contents and attachments check box and click OK.

Note: If you are trying to send an encrypted message to a recipient who has not shared the public key with you, you will be offered the choice to send the message in the unencrypted format. In this case, either with the contact or send the message unencrypted: Encrypt all email messages you send in Outlook If you find that encrypting each email individually is quite an onerous process, you can opt to automatically encrypt all email messages you send in Outlook. However, please note that in this case all of your recipients must have your digital ID to be able to decipher and read your encrypted email. This is probably the right approach if you use a special Outlook account to send emails within your organization only. You can enable automatic Outlook email encryption in the following way:. Navigate to the File tab Options Trust Center Trust Center Settings.

Switch to the Email Security tab, and select Encrypt contents and attachments for outgoing messages under Encrypted email. Then click OK and you are close to finished.

Tip: In case you want some additional settings, for example to choose another digital certificate, click the Settings button. Click OK to close the dialog. From now on, all the messages you send in Outlook will be encrypted. Well, as you can see Microsoft Outlook takes a rather burdensome approach to email encryption.

But once configured, it will definitely make your life easier and email communication safer. However, the email encryption method we have just explored has one significant limitation - it works for Outlook only. If your recipients use some other email clients, then you will need to employ other tools.

Email encryption between Outlook and other email clients To send encrypted email between Outlook and other non-Outlook email clients, you can use one of the third party mail encryption tools. The most popular free open source tool that supports both cryptography standards, and, and works with multiple email clients including Outlook is (the full name is GNU Privacy Guard for Windows).

Using this tool you can easily create an encryption key, export it and send to your contacts. When your recipient receives the email with the encryption key, they will need to save it to a file and then import the key to their email client. I won't be going into much detail on how to work with this tool since it is rather intuitive and easy to understand.

If you need the full info, you can find the on the official web-site and even more detailed instructions on. To have a general idea how GPG4OL looks like in Outlook, see the following screenshot: Besides the GPG4Win add-in, there is a handful of other tools for email encryption. Some of these programs work with Outlook only, while others support several email clients:. supports Outlook, Gmail and Lotus. works for Microsoft Outlook, IBM Notes and Web. free Email Encryption software for Outlook.

email security app to encrypt email messages sent via Outlook, Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo. Exchange hosted encryption If you are working in a corporate environment, you can use the Exchange Hosted Encryption (EHE) service to have your email messages encrypted/decrypted at the server side based on policy rules that your administrator creates. Outlook users who have ever tried this encryption method have two major complaints. Firstly, exchange hosted encryption is hard to configure.

Besides the digital ID, it also requires a special password, aka token, that your Exchange administrator has assigned to you. If your Exchange admin is responsible and responsive, he will configure your Exchange encryption and set you free from this headache: ) If you are not that lucky, try to follow ( Get a digital ID for sending messages using Microsoft Exchange section is near the bottom of the page). Secondly, the recipients of your encrypted emails should use Exchange hosted encryption too, otherwise it is useless. The newest Office 365 Exchange Hosted Encryption, available for purchase since the first quarter of 2014, is claimed to have fixed both of the above mentioned problems. To find more information about it, visit the. If none of the email protection techniques covered in this article meets your requirement in full, you can consider using other, more sophisticated methods, such as Steganography.

This hard-to-pronounce word means concealing a message or other file within another message or file. There exist various digital steganography techniques, for example concealing the contents of an email within the lowest bits of noisy images, within encrypted or random data and so on. If you are interested to learn more, check out. And this is all for today, thank you for reading! I have two Exchange accounts aimed at two different servers in my profile. In Outlook 2011 for Mac this works as advertised, but in Outlook 2010 for Windows Outlook is never able to distinguish between the two certificates and e-mail addresses.

It will always use the last added certificate, regardless of auto select, default select or manual select. I have two different named security settings in trust center, each with the correct certificate for the e-mail address. I have seen people do this with Outlook 2013 but I have failed with 2010. All the best, Per.

Hi Svetlana, I'm using Outlook 2013. I would like to know how to work with Outlook 2013 mail client and Gmail. I've set up the Outlook part by installing the Digital certificate from COMODO and then wrote myself an email on my gmail account.

The first thing I did was to send an plain text mail attaching my public ID to my gmail account. Then I installed another digital certificate from COMODO for my gmail account and did the same to send my public key to my Outlook account.

After this I sent an encrypted email from Outlook 2013 to my Gmail account. The email sure did come, but I cannot see anything written in the mail, except a small attachment called 'smime.p7m' of 11 kb size. How do I decrypt the mail sent from my Outlook 2013 and read it in my Gmail account?? Thanks for helping. Hi, Please correct me if I'm wrong. In order to communicate between Outlook 2013 and Gmail, I thought I needed to exchange digital ID's.

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Hence, I went to the COMODO site and filled in the details for my Gmail account and got a success message for the certificate to have been installed. I then opened IE, tools - options - Content tab - certificates. I could see the my Gmail email address listed there. Then I exported the certificate to the desktop and wrote myself an email from Gmail and attached this certificate along with my mail to my Outlook account.

After that I right-clicked on my account name in contacts and added the Gmail account into Outlook. I looked in the People group and clicked on Certificates, then imported the Gmail certificate into Outlook and saved the closed the window. Then I wrote myself another email from Outlook to my Gmail account.

I clicked on the Encrypt button to encrypt the message and clicked the sent button. But when I do that, I always get a message 'Microsoft Outlook had problems encrypting the message. Because recipients had missing or invalid certificates. ' What did I do wrong here? I tried to follow your instructions exactly, but why does it give me this error??

Okay, I have another question for you, Svetlana. Above in your article you have described how to exchange the digital ID's with each other by right-clicking on the person's name in Contacts and clicking Add to Contacts. This also adds the digital public key of the recipient with whom we want to send messages to. And if that contact already exists in Outlook contacts, then select 'Update information in the Duplicate Contact Detected dialog'. I'm using Outlook 2013 and I do not find the Duplicate Contact Detected dialog box anywhere. Where should I look to Update information for the contact that already exists?? Why is it that to be able to send encrypted emails via outlook, you have to go through the trouble of adding the public cert of that person to his address book contact In Apple Mail, this is ALL AUTOMATIC ( and invisible to our most simplistic user!

) I sync my contacts with google, I cant attach the cert to the contact as when the contacts are synced, the cert is then lost again this is a major problem for me and my company and has caused us to start transferring our users to Apple platforms. The odd thing is that, the only thing that the departments miss is Publisher, which has to be run in Parallels annoying we have to go to these lengths for something which most definitely doesn't work as it should thanks.

Per Frejvall says: August 14, 2014 at 8:01 am Hi all! I have two Exchange accounts aimed at two different servers in my profile.

In Outlook 2011 for Mac this works as advertised, but in Outlook 2010 for Windows Outlook is never able to distinguish between the two certificates and e-mail addresses. It will always use the last added certificate, regardless of auto select, default select or manual select.

I have two different named security settings in trust center, each with the correct certificate for the e-mail address. I have seen people do this with Outlook 2013 but I have failed with 2010. All the best, Per In the above example, do you have both accounts on the same Outlook profile? If so, you need to have separate profiles. Security certificates are 1 per Outlook profile if I remember correctly.

Dod Eca Certificate

Hi, I have downloaded a digital certificate via Comodo.I received the confirmation email and downloaded through the Microsoft website link which suggested comodoo. The details include the 'securing e-mails' descriptions and it says that 'the certificate is ok'. I follow all the steps through to trust centre etc, clicking on settings and then new, entering a name and then choosing. When I click the choose button, I get the dialogue box come up saying 'No certificates avaliable: No certificates meet the application'. Perhaps I need a public key - in which case I'm not sure if I have one already/how to get one. My certificate manager also says that I have a certificate by Comodo. Another reason could be the storing of my certificate which by default named as 'user'.

I chose to automatically choose the location - which put it in downloads. This saved the file type as 'security certificate', however when I install it via the above instructions the file type specifies 'security information' which i change to all files - as this is the only way the certificate shows. Would appreciate the help:).

Problem How do I install my QuoVadis digital certificate into Outlook 2013 to encrypt email or digitally sign emails? Resolution If you have a Digital Certificate, you can use it to digitally sign and encrypt emails. When you are using Microsoft Outlook as your email client, you will need to first configure Outlook to use your certificate.

This document assumes that you have Outlook 2013 configured as your email client. First you must have your Digital Certificate installed on your computer. Depending on the way that you receive your certificate, you may have to view another knowledge base article on how to install a Digital Certificate on your computer. Once you have your Digital Certificate installed, you should open Outlook.

Once Outlook is opened, click on the File tab at the top left. On the left hand set of options, click on the Options button. A window entitled Outlook Options will appear. On the left-hand pane, click on the Trust Center button at the bottom of the list.

The right side of the window will change. Click on the Trust Center Settings button on the bottom right hand side. A window named, Trust Center will appear. On the left hand side you shall see selectable options. Click on the E-mail Security option on the left hand pane. Upon clicking on the E-mail Security button, in the right hand pane, you will see a drop down field next to Default Setting.

Click on the Settings button next to this field. A new window will appear named Change Security Settings. In this window, you will see two Choose buttons under the Certificates and Algorithms section. Signing Certificate First you will choose the signing certificate.

This is the certificate that you will use to digitally sign emails that you send out. The email in the certificate that you have installed on your computer must match the email address that you are using to sign. This certificate must also be valid. In the Certificates and Algorithms section of the Change Security Settings window, you should see the heading, Signing Certificate. Click on the Choose button directly to the right of this heading.

A new window will appear named, Select Certificate. In this window, you will choose the Digital Certificate you would like to sign with from a list of certificates installed on this computer. Note: If you are unsure which certificate to choose, you can always highlight a certificate and click on the View Certificate button to see the details for that certificate. When you have selected the Digital Certificate, click on the OK button at the bottom.

When you return to the Change Security Settings window, you should see that the certificate you have chosen has appeared greyed out in the Signing Certificate field. Encryption Certificate Next you will choose the encryption certificate.

This is the certificate that other users will use when attempting to encrypt an email to you. In typical use, you will use the same Digital Certificate for both signing and encryption (the exception is for Qualified certificates which are only able to digitally sign emails). You can still decrypt an email with an expired certificate. In the Certificates and Algorithms section of the Change Security Settings window, you should see the heading, Encryption Certificate.

Click on the Choose button directly right of this heading. A new window will appear named Select Certificate. In this window, you will choose the Digital Certificate you would use for encryption of emails from a list of certificates installed on this computer.

Note: If you are unsure which certificate to choose, you can always highlight a certificate and click on the View Certificate button to see the details for that certificate. When you have selected the certificate, click on the OK button at the bottom. When you return to the Change Security Settings window, you should see that the certificate you have chosen has appeared greyed out in the Encryption Certificate field. When you have finished selecting your Digital Certificate, you can press the OK button at the bottom.

Additional Configuration (Optional) Back in the Trust Center window, you can further configure Outlook 2013 with the way that it uses your Digital Certificate. Under the Encrypted e-mail heading, you should see 4 check boxes. These check boxes add various features when using Outlook 2013 and Digital Certificates. Encrypt contents and attachments for outgoing messages - This will try to encrypt every outgoing message. In order to encrypt to a user, you must have a copy of their public key/certificate in your address book.

Add digital signature to outgoing messages - This will digitally sign every outgoing message using your Digital Certificate. Send clear text signed message when sending signed message - This sends a digitally signed message to a recipient who does not use S/MIME. Request S/MIME receipt for all S/MIME signed messages - This will request confirmation that a message was received unaltered. Outlook will automatically do this.

Digitally Signing and Encrypting E-Mail Once you have followed this guide and selected a certificate for both the Signing Certificate: and the Encryption Certificate: headings, you will be able to use them while composing an e-mail. Note: Unless you are signing every email, you will not be able to sign and/or encrypt using the preview pane. You must click on the Pop Out button to open the email in a new windows in order to see the options to sign and encrypt.

When you have an email opened and ready to send, click on the Options tab at the top of the email. In the Permission section, directly underneath the top tabs, you should see two buttons named Sign and Encrypt. Click on the Sign button to depress it to digitally sign this email. Click on the Encrypt button to depress it to encrypt this email. Note: You must have the recipients public key in order to encrypt an email. Click on both buttons, Sign and Encrypt to digitally sign and encrypt the message. After you have finished typing the new email, or the reply/forward, press the Send button.

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