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Thunderbird will ask you if you are certain you want to install this add-on. Simply click on the 'Add to Thunderbird' button to start the installation. Enter enigmail in the search bar, like below, and click on the search icon. Open Thunderbird, then Select Tools > Add-ons to activate the Add-ons window the Add-ons window will appear with the default Get Add-ons pane enabled. To begin installing Enigmail, perform the following steps: Similarly, if you have a correspondent's public key, you can verify the digital signatures on her messages. The recipient of your message who has a genuine copy of your public key will be able to verify that the e-mail comes from you, and that its content was not tampered with on the way. Similarly, if you send a copy of your own public key to your e-mail contacts and keep the matching private key secret, only you will be able to read encrypted messages from those contacts.Įnigmail also lets you attach digital signatures to your messages. Only she will be able to decrypt and read your emails, because she is the only person who has access to the matching private key. Once you have a correspondent's public key you can begin sending encrypted e-mails to this person. This key can be shared with any of your correspondents. The second key is known as the public key.
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It is protected by a password or passphrase, guarded and never shared with anyone. The first key is known as the private key. In this method, each individual must generate her/his own personal key pair. Enigmail is simply an interface that lets you use PGP encryption from within Thunderbird.Įnigmail is based on public-key cryptography.
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Installing with the Enigmail extensionĪfter you have successfully installed the PGP software as we described above you are now ready to install the Enigmail add-on.Įnigmail is a Thunderbird add-on that lets you protect the privacy of your email conversations. The default setting should be fine but make a note of it as we may need this later. The installer will ask you where to put the application on your computer. Then complete the installation by agreeing to the license, choosing appropriate language and accepting the default options by clicking 'Next', unless you have a particular reason not to. Windows will ask you if you are sure you want to install this program. Depending on your browser, you may have to double-click on this downloaded file (which will be called something like gpg4qin-2.1.0.exe) before something happens. Click on the button which offers you the latest stable version (not beta) of Gpg4Win.
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This will take you to a page where you can download the Gpg4Win. On the left side of the website, you will find a 'Download' link. Head to the website of the Gpg4win project. It is necessary to install this software before being able to do any encryption. The GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG) is software which is required to send PGP encrypted or signed emails. Installing PGP (GPG) on Microsoft Windows
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Confused?! Don't worry about it, all you have to know is how to encrypt your email with PGP and you need to install both GPG and Enigmail.
To get PGP to work with Thunderbird we need to install GPG - a free software implementation of PGP and Enigmail - an extension of Thunderbird that allows you to use GPG.
To complicate matters a little - PGP is the protocol used for encrypting e-mail by various softwares.