Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote:
When you get to that site, click on "Secure your E-mail" and follow the instructions. While the basic certificate should work fine for signing, if you're using it for legal purposes, you should get it "notarized" by other people, such as myself, who've obtained sufficient points to do so. They have a list of people, all over the world, who can do that. It's built on something similar to the PGP web of trust. I have signed this message, so the copy that goes direct to you should have my digital signature attached. This means you are now in a position to send encrypted email to me. When you get your digital signature, you will be able to sign your email, so that others can encrypt messages to you. You can also, as discussed, select your key in OpenOffice for signing documents.James Knott wrote:I will try a thawte certificate. I was able to find and see my cacert certificate, but it was listed as not valid or recognized or something. Even firefox had an issue with it, not sure why.Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote:I have tried the Thawte certificate with OpenOffice and it did work, though I've never had any need to use it. According to the OpenOffice help. You have to add the certificate into your email program. I did that with Seamonkey on Linux and my certificate appears as available to OpenOffice.James Knott wrote:I should try that. My test with cacert.org did not work. The certificate was not recognized. I probably made some "wrong" choices <sigh>.Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote:You can get a free certificateread this article http://www.linux.com/feature/57554 Get the certificate here http://www.cacert.org/You can also get free certificates from http://www.thawte.com
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