Easy Email Encryption Lite How to Decrypt an Encrypted Message Received

To decrypt a message that you have received (assuming it has been encrypted using Easy Email Encryption Lite and that you know the key to be used) first copy the message from your email program to the clipboard (by highlighting the message and using the 'Copy' command or pressing control-C). You do not have to isolate the encrypted message; what you copy can include normal text occurring before and after the encrypted message, but there must be at least one empty (blank) line between the encrypted message and any other text before or after it.

Note that you should not try to load or copy the encrypted message into the text window — the program decrypts what is on the clipboard, not what is in the text window. (To check that the encrypted message has actually been copied to the clipboard you can, as noted above, view the contents of the clipboard by using the Clipboard Viewer in the Windows 'Accessories' menu.)

Select 'Decrypt message on clipboard' at the top of the window.

Specify the decryption key (as explained here) then click on the 'Copy message from clipboard and decrypt' button. The decrypted message will then appear in the text window.

If the key used for decryption is not correct you will simply receive an error message; nothing will appear in the text window.

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