In Ihrem Mail-Programm empfangen mit Ihrem Public Key (SMIME/PGP)
Many users prefer to use their standard eMail program for
receiving secure messages, too. PrivaSphere Secure Messages
can be delivered (at this time) to your standard eMail user
interface by providing PrivaSphere your public key (PGP
or X.509). This will enable a secure delivery to your
standard eMail account
Mein Konto - advanced security settings
- Prepare setup:
- Locate the public key file on your PC ( What is a public key).
- If you do not have a certificate, get one first (as used only to secure the transmission between your PrivaSphere Messaging server and yourself a self signed certificate is sufficient)
- PrivaSphere account > edit profile > Advanced security settings:
- Upload your public key with the browse button (only one, S/MIME or PGP).
- Check BCC to your account, if you wish to keep a copy of your sent messages in your mail program
- Press the "update account" button.
- You receive a system message 'first encrypted message' to your
mail client. (This message will be signed. Please see find our PrivaSphere
OpenPGP signature validation public key!
You might want to Right-click on the link and choose "Save Target Link As". If you want to save it out of your browser, save it as text, but with the file extension".asc". The key's fingerprint is8D34 5AEC F4F4 6DDF 9E29 3F7C 7FF2 EE5C 4259 F31C. If you are not familiar with this, please see The GNU Privacy Handbook .
In the same way, please find our PrivaSphere's x509/SMIME signature validation public key and root certificate!
Again, you might want to Right-click on the link and choose "Save Target Link As". If you want to save it out of your browser, save it as text, but with the file extension".crt". )
Receiving large attachments
Many mail servers and providers limit the message size. Large files may
need to be downloaded directly from the PrivaSphere web mail interface anyway.
Incompatibilities
Do not use PGP public keys with a key or subkey that is not of length
2x*1024 i.e. 2048 or 4096 are good, but 3072 is bad.
Also, you might have troubles with the Microsoft proprietary attachment format
winmal.dat bad.
Advantages:
- Use this feature when you cannot get from your mail program to our port 995 (e.g. because your firewall forbids this)
- When your mail program cannot do SSL on POP3 or is incompatible with our secure POP server but is capable of doing GnuPG or SMIME
- If you only can do IMAP and not POP3 with SSL.
If you still cannot receive PrivaSphere Secure Messages into your mail client, then contact PrivaSphere support for additional assistance.
See also: