Email Encryption

It is surprising easy to encrypt emails - and more and more it is demanded. Think not only about your needs. When you send personal data from participants in your project like addresses or motivation letters, are you really sure, that there is no implication for them?

How does it look?

In the example to the right you see, how such a message is looking like. It is encrypted by an extension that you have to install in your email client. We explain it here for Mozilla Thunderbird.

Installing Process

First of all, you need to install GPG and the Thunderbird Addon Enigmail. This step-by-step-tutorial is guiding you through the installation:

• Thunderbird Support: Digitally Signing and Encrypting Messages.
• Quickstart instruction for Enigmail

To use PGP encryption, you and your communication partner have to install both an encription program based on the standard PGP. PGP stands for 'pretty good privacy'. After installation you generate your personal key.

The idea: public and private keys

Every user of PGP has a private and a public key.

The public key is used by another person, that wants you to send a message for encrypting.

The private key should be kept secret: It is used only by you to decript encrypted messages of another person to you.

Key Management

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