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Using Mozilla Thunderbird with SELS

The following screenshots illustrates how the Engimail Plugin for Thunderbird is used for importing keying material sent by the List Moderator and sending and receiving emails on the list.

1. Thunderbird with Enigmail plugin.

Thunderbird with enigmail plugin

2. Four emails from List Moderator

4 emails

3. First email contains the Instructions.

instructions

4. Second email contains the List Moderator key. Click "Decrypt" to import this key

LM pub key email

5. List Moderator Key imported

LM pubkey imported

6. Set Owner Trust to "ultimate" for the List Moderator public key

Setting trust for LMpubkey

set trust

set key trust to ultimate

7. The third email contains keying material for the list. Enter secret passphrase given by List Moderator

accept email

8. Decrypted second email.

dec mail

9. Click "Decrypt again". The decrypted message contains keys.

accept mail 2

10. Select the message. Click Edit - Copy

select all

11. Paste the message in a Text Editor. Save the file

copy to notepad

save as file

12. Click "Import keys from file".

file

13. Select the file

selct the file

imported

14. Keys imported

keys

15. Change passphrase of list decryption key to be same as your signature key for ease of use.

change pass

pass

16. The fourth email is a notification sent by List Server to inform the user that his corresponding keys have been successfully installed and he is ready to send and receive secure email.

ckey

17. Compose a signed and encrypted message and click "Send"

compose

18. The List encryption key is chosen by default to encrypt the message.

compose message

19. Decrypted and Verified Message received on list.

dec -ver

Last modified 01/04/08 .
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