Encrypting Data with Guard

The following settings are available:

default settings

• Default to send encrypted when composing email. Defines whether a new E-Mail is encrypted by default.

• Default adding signature to outgoing mails. Defines whether a new E-Mail is encrypted per default.

• Default to using PGP inline for new mails. Defines whether the PGP encryption is done inline as default. Only use those settings if the E-Mail client of a recipient does not support PGP. With PGP inline, the recipient can decrypt the message nevertheless. If you use this setting, you can not send E-Mails in html format.

• Remember password default. Defines the time range default for Guard to remember the password. You can change this default when being asked for your Guard password.

Password management

• Contains functions for changing or resetting the password

• See Password management

Advanced

• Advanced settings. If Show advanced settings is enabled, the following settings and functions will be available.

  • E-Mail cache

    Defines whether a decrypted E-Mail is kept in the browser cache in a readable format when displaying another E-Mail or changing to another groupware app.

    To remove the decrypted E-Mail from the browser cache, enable Do not keep emails decrypted..

  • Keys section

    Managing own keys, public keys or Autocrypt keys

    See Keys

  • Autocrypt section

    Configures the usage of Autocrypt for incoming E-Mails. Allows you to transfer Autocrypt keys to other clients.

    See Encrypting E-Mail Conversations with Autocrypt

  • When sending encrypted E-Mails, there are additional options.

    See Sending encrypted E-Mails

Keys

Usually, the key management functions are not required for sending or receiving encrypted messages. Those functions can be useful though under the following circumstances:

• You want to use your Guard PGP keys in other E-Mail clients, e.g. in local E-Mail clients.

• You have PGP keys from other PGP applications. You want to use those keys in Guard.

• You have an external partner's public key. In order to send encrypted messages to this external partner or verify received signed messages without having to access a key server, you want to import the partner's public key into Guard.

• You want to provide your public key to an external partner in order to allow the external partner to send encrypted messages to you without the need to access a key server.

The following options exist:

• Download my public key button. Locally saves your public key.

• Your keys button. Opens the Your Keys window for managing your own keys.

• Public keys of recipients button. Opens the Your Keys window for managing public keys.

Parent topic: Encrypting Data with Guard