Free Secure Email Certificate
Want to digitally sign your emails? A Secure Email Certificate is required if you want to communicate with others via email and know that you know who you are corresponding with.
Most companies charge for the certificate. Comodo, who recently acquired BOClean and now provides it for free, is offering a free secure email certificate for personal users. Naturally they would like to sell some services to your business.
Comodo’s website seems to be changing fast and furious, and as a result I hit a few broken links and even had a hard time finding the free secure email certificate from the link on the home page. But it’s here.
Comodo has some instructions on how to use the certificate (it’s pretty easy) for the most popular email clients including Mozilla Thunderbird.
(Here it is in Outlook 2003)
All you have to give them is a name and email address and they will send you the free certificate. The name is what will be displayed when someone accesses the certificate so you need to give them your real name, or whoever you are known as to those you will be sending the digitally signed emails to.
Signing up for their newsletter is on by default, but optional. Even then, the link I clicked to confirm opt-in came up with a 404 error so I’m not sure I’ll even get the newsletter.
In today’s age of spam and spoofed email, digitally signing your email isn’t a bad idea. And now that it’s free - it’s always been easy - what are you waiting for?
