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How to Set Your Email Client to
Digitally Sign and/or Encrypt your Outgoing Messages

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Due to changes in the renewal of DOEGrids certificates, it is not recommended to use DOEGrids certificates for email signing or encryption. A change was made to no longer renew a users DOEGrids certificate, but to rather issue a new certificate. This action regenerates a users public/private keypair. Once your DOEGrids certificate expires (and hence, cannot be renewed), many applications will detect that the certificate is expired and will no longer decrypt email, and may fail to validate a signed message. In addition, given the short lifetime of an issued KCA certificate, KCA's are not to be used for such purposes.

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Information compiled and maintained by Computer Security Team ; last modified by JK on Apr 11, 2008.
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