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Allows the possibility of sending and/or receiving email encrypted.
Allows the possibility of sending and/or receiving email encrypted.


====How Does S/MIME Work?====
====How Does S/MIME Work?====
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In order to encrypt, you must have previously received a signed message from that user, such that Zimbra has stored the public S/MIME certificate for that other user. A digital id or digital certificate consists of a public and private key.  Your public key is shared with everyone.  Your private key is kept private.
In order to encrypt, you must have previously received a signed message from that user, such that Zimbra has stored the public S/MIME certificate for that other user. A digital id or digital certificate consists of a public and private key.  Your public key is shared with everyone.  Your private key is kept private.
=====Digital signatures and end-to-end email encryption:=====
A digital signature only requires the sender (the signer) to have cryptographic keys (a private key and a public key). The sender signs the message locally on his/her device (using sender’s private key). Furthermore, the receiver verifies it on his device by using sender’s public key. The process works as follows:
  --  Alice (sender) generates a key pair and shares her public key with Bob (a one-time pre-requisite).
  --  Alice signs the message using her private key in her device and sends the message to Bob.
  --  Bob receives the signed message on his device and verifies the signature using Alice’s public key.
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How to configure S/MIME(Webmail, ZCO,IMAP,POP and Thunderbird)?


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What is S/MIME?

S/MIME is an acronym for Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions. It references a type of public encryption and signing of MIME data (email messages) to verify a sender’s identity.

What it allows you to do is two things:

Ensure to your email recipients that YOU actually sent the email.

Allows the possibility of sending and/or receiving email encrypted.


How Does S/MIME Work?

As mentioned above, S/MIME is a type of “end-to-end” encryption solution used for email messages. To be more specific, it uses asymmetric cryptography to protect emails from being read by a third party.

Sign: Digitally validate that you are the sender of a message. When signing, you use your private key to write message's signature, and they use your public key to check if it's really yours.

Encrypt: encrypt the composed message for one or more recipients. When encrypting, you use their public key to write a message and they use their private key to read it.

In order to encrypt, you must have previously received a signed message from that user, such that Zimbra has stored the public S/MIME certificate for that other user. A digital id or digital certificate consists of a public and private key. Your public key is shared with everyone. Your private key is kept private.


Digital signatures and end-to-end email encryption:

A digital signature only requires the sender (the signer) to have cryptographic keys (a private key and a public key). The sender signs the message locally on his/her device (using sender’s private key). Furthermore, the receiver verifies it on his device by using sender’s public key. The process works as follows:

 --  Alice (sender) generates a key pair and shares her public key with Bob (a one-time pre-requisite).
 --  Alice signs the message using her private key in her device and sends the message to Bob.
 --  Bob receives the signed message on his device and verifies the signature using Alice’s public key.

Smime1.png

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