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Select Certificates for Signing and Encryption

Follow the steps below to select the certificate(s) to use for digital signing and encryption.

How to select a certificate:

  1. Present your PassKey to your computer.
  2. Start Thunderbird and click Account Settings from the Tools menu (Windows or Mac) or Edit menu (Linux). The Account Settings window opens.
  3. Click Security on the left. The Security window opens.
  4. Click the Select button under Digital Signing.

  5. Enter the access code for your PassKey and click .

  6. From the Select Certificate window, click in the Certificate list and select the certificate to use for digital signing. Then click .

  7. When asked if you want to use the same certificate to encrypt/decrypt messages, click Yes. (You can click No if you have a personal certificate for signing and an organization-provided certificate for encryption. Then click Select under Encryption, select the organization-provided certificate from the list in Select Certificate, and click .)

  1. Click Digitally sign messages (by default) in the Security window. Then click .

 

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