RE: using certificates in Outlook for encryption

From: Glenn Pearl (glennp_at_datasync.com)
Date: 04/15/05

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    To: "'Stegman, William'" <Bill.Stegman@transcore.com>, <focus-ms@securityfocus.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 07:24:24 -0500

    You don't mention if you have Exchange or not, so I will assume for the
    moment not. Therefore, try the following. As I recall, this worked in
    Outlook XP.

    Once you receive the email with the digital sig, save the certificate
    from the email to a file.

    Then, if you don't already have a Contact record for that person, create
    one.
    In the Contact record, go the Certificates tab and click Import. Browse
    to the cert file you saved from the email and import it. Save the
    Contact record.

    Now when sending an email to that contact's address, you will be able to
    both encrypt with their pub key and sign with your private.

    Hope that helps.

    Regards,
    Glenn Pearl

    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: Stegman, William [mailto:Bill.Stegman@transcore.com]
    > Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 9:53 AM
    > To: focus-ms@securityfocus.com
    > Subject: using certificates in Outlook for encryption
    >
    > I have an enterprise PKI setup in our win2k active dir domain, and
    have been issuing user
    > certificates for authentication, efs, and email encryption.  I've got
    wireless working fine with the
    > certs, and signing messages from outlook works ok too, but when trying
    to encrypt the
    > messages for others to view, I'm missing something.  Everything I keep
    reading only brushes
    > over the fact that you can send your public key in an email message to
    your intended recipient
    > so he/she can later read your encrypted messages, but once I receive
    that public key through a
    > singed email, there's nothing I can really do with it as far as I can
    tell.  The messages are being
    > sent to users who have obtained private keys from the same source, the
    AD enterprise CA.  I've
    > posted some notes on MS's community newsgroups, but no bites.  The
    outlook clients range
    > from 2000 to 2003, I've got the certificates configured in outlook's
    security tab, I think I'm just
    > missing the public key part......
    >
    > Thank you,
    >
    > William Stegman - Network Administrator
    > TransCore - Hummelstown
    > Phone: 717-561-5931
    > Fax: 717-564-8439
    > william.stegman@transcore.com
    >
    >
    >
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