Sending Secure Email with Digital ID Verisign

[Guest David F]

Many people email sensitive information by email when they should not. When

using the internet it pays to be paranoid and it is quite easy and

inexpensive to install a digital ID for encryption.

 

Although not listed on the Microsoft website as a provider of digital ID

certificates for Office 2007 on this page:

https://digitalid.verisign.com/enrollment/MS_pcmp.htm

 

Verisign is indeed a provider. Special instructions have to be followed

when requesting a certificate with Vista/IE7 which are listed on the top of

the certificate enrollment page.

https://digitalid.verisign.com/client/class1MS.htm

 

Also special instructions for installing a certificate in various version of

Outlook including Outlook 2007 are here:

http://www.verisign.com/support/digital-id-support/page_dev029379.html

 

Certificate costs are $20/year but you can get a 60 day free trial to try it

out.

 

The certificate allows for both:

1. Digital signing.

2. Encrypted email (the receipient of the email must have a certificate as

well).

The encrypted email is very important for sending secure information

including credit care numbers, social security numbers, and patient medical

information. Some people send secure information such as this without

encryption but they should not.

[Guest Steve Foster [SBS MVP]]

Re: Sending Secure Email with Digital ID Verisign

 

David F wrote:

>Verisign is indeed a provider.

 

I choose to not deal with Verisign at every opportunity.

 

They're the company that tried to hijack bad DNS requests to refer traffic

to themselves. They're the company that now makes "protective"

registrations of names that you look up (for prospective purchase) via

their site.

 

The litany of bad practices at Verisign is ridiculously long.

 

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[Guest David F]

Re: Sending Secure Email with Digital ID Verisign

 

Well, you're perfectly entitled to pay the $360 / year that the two listed

Office 2007 vendors charge instead of the $20/year I spend using Verisign.

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/marketplace/EY010504841033.aspx is the

list without Verisign (that needs to be corrected to add it) and has

 

http://www.avocosecure.com/html_pages/secure2trust/secure2trust_buy.htm

Price: USD 370.00 [Volume discount prices]

 

http://www.intellisafe.com/microsoft.htm

$360 - 12 month subscription (following 1 month unlimited signing)

 

"Steve Foster [sBS MVP]" <steve.foster@picamar.co.uk> wrote in message

news:xn0flx7l7195zsn003@msnews.microsoft.com...

> David F wrote:

>

>>Verisign is indeed a provider.

>

> I choose to not deal with Verisign at every opportunity.

>

> They're the company that tried to hijack bad DNS requests to refer traffic

> to themselves. They're the company that now makes "protective"

> registrations of names that you look up (for prospective purchase) via

> their site.

>

> The litany of bad practices at Verisign is ridiculously long.

>

> --

> Steve Foster [sBS MVP]

> ---------------------------------------

> MVPs do not work for Microsoft. Please reply only to the newsgroups.

[Guest Mark R. Cusumano]

Re: Sending Secure Email with Digital ID Verisign

 

http://www.comodo.com offers free email certificates.

 

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Web: http://The-Padded-Cell.spaces.live.com

 

 

 

"David F" <dfumento@ATSIGNgmailDOT.com> wrote in message

news:7D022D20-25E3-4A72-8430-D0DBF3535986@microsoft.com...

> Well, you're perfectly entitled to pay the $360 / year that the two listed

> Office 2007 vendors charge instead of the $20/year I spend using Verisign.

> http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/marketplace/EY010504841033.aspx is the

> list without Verisign (that needs to be corrected to add it) and has

>

> http://www.avocosecure.com/html_pages/secure2trust/secure2trust_buy.htm

> Price: USD 370.00 [Volume discount prices]

>

> http://www.intellisafe.com/microsoft.htm

> $360 - 12 month subscription (following 1 month unlimited signing)

>

> "Steve Foster [sBS MVP]" <steve.foster@picamar.co.uk> wrote in message

> news:xn0flx7l7195zsn003@msnews.microsoft.com...

>> David F wrote:

>>

>>>Verisign is indeed a provider.

>>

>> I choose to not deal with Verisign at every opportunity.

>>

>> They're the company that tried to hijack bad DNS requests to refer

>> traffic to themselves. They're the company that now makes "protective"

>> registrations of names that you look up (for prospective purchase) via

>> their site.

>>

>> The litany of bad practices at Verisign is ridiculously long.

>>

>> --

>> Steve Foster [sBS MVP]

>> ---------------------------------------

>> MVPs do not work for Microsoft. Please reply only to the newsgroups.

>

[Guest Steve Foster [SBS MVP]]

Re: Sending Secure Email with Digital ID Verisign

 

David F wrote:

>Well, you're perfectly entitled to pay the $360 / year that the two listed

>Office 2007 vendors charge instead of the $20/year I spend using Verisign.

 

Who said anything about using Microsoft recommended suppliers? I simply

said that I would not touch Verisign with a 10ft bargepole.

 

There are plenty of free certificate options (for personal, non-commercial

use), and just as many offering inexpensive commercial ones, without

resorting to either Verisign or a vendor charging $360pa (and I can't

believe that *anyone* would pay that sort of money for an individual

certificate).

 

I use Thawte free certificates for my personal use, and have a commercial

one from XRamp for work.

 

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