Re: [Micronet] Digital Signature

Hi All,

Back in 2004 I looked into Digital Signatures and, while a little bit
of a pain, here's how I did it back then
using the browsers and mail clients available then. Of note, this
was written for a Mac user but the concepts
should be universal.

Regards,

Kin

You need to use Mozilla to complete the certificate process. Below are
some instructions on how to get an S/MIME certificate from Thawte.com

Request a certificate:
1. Launch Mozilla (I kid you not, this won't work in Safari as of
7/2004--it might work now, 1/2007)
2. Go to Thawte's web site and get your FREE personal email
certificate.
http://www.thawte.com/secure-email/personal-email-certificates/
index.html
4. Register with Thawte
5. Request a new "X.509 Certificate".
6. After filling in the request Mozilla will prompt you for a password
for the "Software Security Device". This is the password for Mozilla's
internal password/certificate management system. It's not your keychain
password.
7. Now go to the "View Certificate Status" page on Thawte's page. You
should see your requested certificate with a status of either "Pending"
or "Issued". If it's pending, wait a while until it's issued. The last
one I did took about 10 minutes to get issued.
8. Once the certificate has been issued view the details of it an then
click the "Fetch" icon at the bottom of the detail page.
9. Bring up the prefs panel in Mozilla and select the "Certificates"
item under Privacy & Security.
10. Click on the "Manage Certificates..." button. This will show a
list of certificates that you have downloaded.
11. Select the certificate you just created and click the "Backup"
button.
12. Enter a filename and save it somewhere.
13. Quit Mozilla

Add the Cert to your Keychain
1. Go find the cert that you saved from step #12 in the Finder and
double click it
2. You'll be prompted for the password for the item and what keychain
to add the cert to.

Try it out in Mail
1. In Mail, compose a new message from the email address that you got
the cert for. You should see the "Sign" button in the compose window.
2. Verify that in the message you receive there is a Security header
saying "Signed".
3. There is no step 3!

Kin Jung
Marketing & Outreach, The Scholar's Workstation, U.C. Berkeley
2200 University Avenue, Room 41, Berkeley, California 94720-3808
tel. 510 643 6181 fax. 510 643 6201 email <ksjung_at_tsw.berkeley.edu>
website <http://calcomputers.berkeley.edu>
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Received on Thu Jan 11 2007 - 12:34:56 PST