Errata for Microsoft® Outlook® 2010 Inside Out
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Page 361
3rd paragraph |
Paragraph 3 on page 361 says:
'Think of it as having a "read content key" and a "create content
key": one key (the private key) lets you create encrypted content, and the other key (the public key) lets others read the content encrypted with the private key.'
The following Microsoft article (admittedly for Outlook 2007) explains that the public key is used to ENCRYPT an email, and the private key is used to DECRYPT the email. This means anyone with your public key can encrypt a message to you, but only you can decrypt it. If it were the other way round (as the book indicates), anyone intercepting a confidential message addressed to you would be able to decrypt it with the sender's freely-available public key - and, obviously, that would not be secure. The Microsoft article is at the following webpage:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/outlook-help/encrypt-e-mail-messages-HP001230536.aspx
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Anonymous |
May 27, 2013 |