Gill said:
Does anyone know how to password protect an email?
thanks
Get the x.509 digital [security] certificate from your intended
recipient (who must first send you a digitally signed message so you can
get their public key), encrypt your message, send it, and the recipient
will decrypt it using their private key. If you want others to send YOU
encrypted e-mails, you will need to get a digital certificate so you can
give your senders your public key they use to encrypt their messages
that they send to you so you can use your private key to decrypt them.
The sender uses the public key given to them previously by the recipient
of their message. Read Outlook's help on encrypting messages. PGP also
lets you use digital certificates but you have to use it as an add-in
(don't use it so you'll need to ask someone else why PGP is better than
x.509).
Or get WinZip, PKzip, WinRAR, UltimateZip, or whatever file compression
archival utility floats your boat, configure the archive file to use
password protection, and send the archive file as an attachment. But
how are you going to tell them the password? Can't be in the message
you send that contains the attached password-protected file. You could
use something you know about them and hope they guess what it is by a
hint you give them. You could send it in a different e-mail but if you
are concerned about your e-mails getting intercepted, interrogated, and
possibly archived on someone's server then they'll also get that other
e-mail with the password.
