secure email setup (digital signatures)

[djc]

Can someone point me in the right direction for instructions on setting up
secure email in Outlook 2000? I need to setup certificates so that email can
be digitally signed by some of my users and so that these users can verify
authenticity of the senders of some of their emails.

any input would be greatly appreciated. thanks.

 

[neo [mvp outlook]]

Will your site be acquiring certificates from an online authority like
Verisign/Thawte or going with an internal certificate authority? The later
introduces issues of its own since the public will not know about your
internal certificate authority. In any event, once the user acquires a
certificate for S/MIME, they just need to publish the certificate in their
personal certificate store. From there, they select Tools | Options |
Security tab I believe and set the drop down to their S/MIME certificate and
pick the options correct for your site.

/neo

ps - if getting a certificate from an online authority, encourage your users
to keep a backup copy of the *.cer file. This way if they change machines
or their NT/2000/XP/2003 user profile on the machine become corrupt, they
can reinstall the certificate and not lose access to any encrypted messages.

 

[djc]

thank you for the info neo. I have not decided on external or interal cert
authority yet. I guess external would be the best way so all users already
trust the source.

thanks again.