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Before You Begin
- Making Sense of Digital Certificates (Summary handout)
- What are Digital Certificates?
- Do I need a Digital Certificate?
- What do Digital Certificates not do?
- What systems and programs can use Digital Certificates?
- Users: Key things to know about digital certificates
- Technical Staff: Key things to know about digital certificates
- Departmental account sponsors: Key things to know about authorizing digital certificates in TRAC
Getting a Certificate
Requesting and downloading a certificate
Using Certificates
E-mail Options
- Setting up e-mail programs to use certificates by default:
Entourage 2004 | Entourage 2008 | Mac Mail | Outlook 2003 | Outlook 2007 | Thunderbird | Windows Mobile 6 - Changing signing and encryption options for individual e-mail messages
- Encrypting messages to other people—Searching address books for users' public keys
Entourage | Outlook 2003 | Outlook 2007 | Thunderbird - Using Outlook Web Access (OWA)
- Using certificates in Web-based e-mail programs
- Using certificates on your BlackBerry or other mobile device
Encrypting Files
- Encrypting files on a Mac computer
- Encrypting files on a Windows computer using EFS
- Decrypting files and folders encrypted with EFS
Managing Your Certificates
- Backing up and/or moving your certificates from Windows
- Backing up and/or moving your certificates from Mac OS X
- Importing certificates to the Mac OS X Keychain
- Importing certificates to the Windows Certificate Store
- Exporting certificates from the Mac OS X Keychain
- Exporting files from the Windows Certificate Store
Reporting Lost/Compromised Certificates
- Requesting recovery of your encryption certificate
- Requesting revocation of your signing certificate
Troubleshooting
- Couldn't download certificate in Internet Explorer
- Don't remember my Firefox Software Security Device Password
- Problems reading signed or encrypted e-mail
Reference
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