Ten Minute Guide to Lotus Notes® 4.6

Encryption

When you want to keep your email private, encrypt it. Encrypting scrambles your message so that only the person receiving it can read it.

Each Lotus Notes user has a unique private and public key that Notes stores as part of the ID file. The public key is also stored in the person document for each user in the Public Address Book. When someone sends you an encrypted mail message, Notes uses your public key from the Public Address Book to encrypt the message. Now, no one but you can read it. At the delivery end, Notes uses your private key from your ID file to decrypt the message so that you can read it.

To encrypt a mail message, do the following:

1. Create the memo.

2. Click the Delivery Options button on the Action bar. The Delivery Options ...