Due: June 5, 2010 (before class)
Hand in: Send an email.
Weight: 15 points
This
goal of this assignment is to practice using S/MIME. You
are to obtain a personal e-mail certificate from CAcert as instructed
below, and then do the following.
(1) Send a signed and encrypted message to yourself and then examine all parts pertaining to the received message.
(2) Send one single email that is signed and encrypted to your instructor at exotic.sa@gmail.com containing the following:
a) A very very very brief textual answer as well as snapshots of your work in step (1).
b) An answer to this question: What is the difference between 'a signed and then encrypted message' and 'an encrypted and then signed message'?
You need to install the certificate for exotic.sa@gmail.com The certificate can be downloaded from here.
Register at
https://www.cacert.org/index.php?id=1
A complete tutorial through http://wiki.cacert.org/ThunderBird
You may also use Outlook or other clients with S/MIME support
(http://wiki.cacert.org/EmailCertificates)
Two things to be aware of if you're in campus (only KFUPM
campus)
KFUPM ITC firewall maintains a white list of ports (all ports are blocked except for certain ones). Therefore, you're email provider should use the default protocols and ports. Otherwise, use your university email (if you're not sure) through one of the mail clients with i/mime support (see “Creating email cert for Thunderbird”). Also, you have to use own machine as you need administrative privileges for the browser to generate the certificate keys and to install them.
Extra Info
http://wiki.cacert.org/EmailCertificates
