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Using Lotus Notes
This chapter tells you how to use PGP’s Lotus Notes plugin.
The sections in this chapter are:
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Overview
•
Encrypting and signing
•
Decrypting and verifying
Overview
The PGP Lotus Notes plugin lets you encrypt, sign, and decrypt/verify encrypted
email messages using your Lotus Notes email program.
Encrypting and signing
To encrypt and sign an email message using Lotus Notes:
1. Use your Lotus Notes email client to compose your message as you normally
would.
Note: If you are sending sensitive email, consider leaving your subject line blank or creating a subject line that does not reveal the contents of your encrypted message.
2. When you have finished composing the text of your email message, click the PGP
button on your toolbar.
A drop-down menu appears listing your PGP options.
3. Select Sign to digitally sign your message; select Encrypt to encrypt the text of
your message.
4. If you choose to encrypt and/or sign the message, you are also given the option to
encrypt the text before sending. To do so, click the PGP button, and select
Encode NOW from the new drop-down menu.
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