Learn how to request Personal email certificates and set up secure email communication.
Assignment Date:8/27/2008
Due Date: 9/3/2008 (no class labor day 9/1/2008)
Description:
Part 1:
Upload your recent with face big enough for easy recognition, and save in
JPEG/GIF/PNG as <your ufp login>.jpg in ~<login>/public_html/cs591/images
directory on CS Unix machine.
For new user, I have created account for you on bilbo.uccs.edu. Your CS Unix account will be created next Monday. Use uccs resource vpn to access bilbo server. See http://www.uccs.edu/~helpdesk/vpn.htm for setting up the uccs resource vpn at home.
Create a web page, <your ufp login>.html, with
your recent photo, short vita, at least email address, your interests in CS591
Note that I have created account for you on bilbo.uccs.edu with your SID with dash as password. A sample web page was also created for you at http://bilbo.uccs.edu/~<login>/cs591/<login>.html
For new user, you can revise this web page and sftp it to your ~<your login>/public_html/cs591 directory on CS
Unix machine later when your account is set up there.
Check the file access right. Verify that http://cs.uccs.edu/~<your ufp
login>/cs591/<your ufp login> can be used retrieve the web page from
a web browser.
Email me the url when you are done.
Part 2. Secure Email Using Personal E-mail certificate.
Here are the detailed steps for requesting Thawte email certificate and set up outlooks for signing and encrypting emails. http://cs.uccs.edu/~cs591/semail.html
After setting up your email program, email me an signed email. I will reply with an encrypted email. You will then reply with an encrypted signed email. The encrypted email will contain secret msg and your score for part 3.
Question 3. When we encrypted email with our own email address in cc section, we got msg similar to the one below? Why is that?
Please email me your work by 11:59pm 9/3/2008. It can be in MS Word, HTML, or PDF file format.
