Homework #1
Introduction

Goal:

Introduce yourself to the class, share your research interest.
Learn how to request Personal email certificates and set up secure email communication.

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 viva.uccs.edu. Your CS Unix account was created also. Note that they are not using the same file system. Changes on one viva will not show up on CS Unix machines. Use uccs resource vpn to access viva 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
You can copy chow2.html and edit it with your own
See examples in http://cs.uccs.edu/~cs591/CS591S2007Photo.html
Note that I have created account for you on viva.uccs.edu with your SID with dash as password. A sample web page was also created for you at http://viva.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.

Request Personal E-mail certificates from Thawte Certificate Authority for setting up secure email communication (IE/Outlook or Firefox/Thunderbird). https://www.thawte.com/secure-email/personal-email-certificates/index.html
Here are the detailed steps for setting up Outlook 2003 for retrieve uccs.edu mail from mail.uccs.edu using IMAP protocol.
http://cs.uccs.edu/~cs591/outlookImap.html
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?