{"id":777,"date":"2013-07-21T10:20:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-21T17:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/?p=777"},"modified":"2025-10-21T17:46:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T00:46:11","slug":"screencast-digitally-sign-and-encrypt-email","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/?p=777","title":{"rendered":"Screencast: Digitally Sign and Encrypt Email"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Email communication is critical for business, but unfortunately it remains vulnerable to security flaws. Email spoofing and SMTP messages sent in plaintext are typical examples. Despite all efforts to keep systems and networks secure and protected, it is not uncommon to see credentials and passwords sent in plaintext via emails; messages pretending to be sent from our bank or trusted partners appear daily in our mailbox.<\/p>\n<p>In the following <strong><a title=\"How to Digitally Sign and Encrypt Email\" href=\"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/video\/tutorials\/How-to-Digitally-Sign-Encrypt-Emails\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Screencast <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/video\/tutorials\/How-to-Digitally-Sign-Encrypt-Emails\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-785 alignnone\" title=\"How to Digitally Sign and Encrypt Email\" alt=\"Online Screencast\" src=\"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/video-icon.png\" width=\"25\" height=\"21\" \/><\/a><\/strong>, we demonstrate how to request and install a personal email certificate, and how to digitally sign and encrypt emails with it.<\/p>\n<p>Backing up your personal certificate and keeping it in a safe location is crucial. We demonstrate how to export your certificate to PFX file, and how to install it on different OS and email clients.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"How to Digitally Sign and Encrypt Email\" href=\"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/video\/tutorials\/How-to-Digitally-Sign-Encrypt-Emails\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-779\" alt=\"Digitally Sign and Encrypt Email\" src=\"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Digitally-Sign-Encrypt-Email.png\" width=\"440\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Digitally-Sign-Encrypt-Email.png 440w, https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Digitally-Sign-Encrypt-Email-300x272.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-hashtag-button\" title=\"Digitally Sign and Encrypt Email\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?button_hashtag=SecureEmail\">Tweet #SecureEmail<\/a> <a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/netometer\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @netometer<\/a><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,\"script\",\"twitter-wjs\");<br \/>\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned on <strong><a title=\"NetoMeter - Screencasts and Step-by-Step Video Tutorials\" href=\"..\/..\/blog\/?feed=rss2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NetoMeter<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; subscribe to<a title=\"NetoMeter - Screencasts and Step-by-Step Video Tutorials\" href=\"..\/..\/blog\/?feed=rss2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <strong>NetoMeter RSS<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Dean<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite all efforts to keep systems and networks secure and protected, it is not uncommon to see credentials and passwords sent in plaintext via emails; messages pretending to be sent from our bank or trusted partners appear daily in our mailbox. In the following Screencast, we demonstrate how to request and install a personal email certificate, and how to digitaly sign and ecrypt emails with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":779,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[341],"tags":[350,352,351],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}