| Easy Email Encryption Lite How to Encrypt a Message to be Sent |
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To send an encrypted message select 'Encrypt message to be sent' at the top of the window.
The message to be encrypted can be up to 40 KB in size (that is, there is a maximum of 40,960 characters and spaces).
Easy Email Encryption Lite works with text in languages other than English, more exactly, in any language which can be encoded in WinLatin1 (a.k.a. the Windows 1252 character set), which includes most European languages.
The message must appear in the textbox. You can place text in the textbox in one of three ways. You can:
- Compose the text directly in the textbox.
- Load text into the textbox directly from a file (via the 'Load file into textbox' button) provided that the file contains only normal text (this excludes MS-Word .doc files).
- Load text into some other word-processing program (e.g., MS-Word), copy the text to the clipboard, then paste it into the text box using control-V or the 'Copy from clipboard' button.
Easy Email Encryption Lite will load Unicode text files (both big- and little-endian) into the textbox correctly, but it will not read correctly text encoded using UTF-8. A UTF-8 text file should be read into NotePad (or some other text editor which handles UTF-8 files) and the contents copied to the clipboard. The same is true for text in an MS-Word .doc file.
The clipboard is a buffer for holding data temporarily. In most text editors the 'Copy' command copies highlighted text to the clipboard and the 'Paste' command copies it from the clipboard. You can view the clipboard using the Clipboard Viewer in the Windows 'Accessories' menu.
After having added the message to be encrypted, and having specified the key (as explained earlier), the screen should look something like this:
Now click on the 'Encrypt message and copy to clipboard' button.
After the message has been encrypted (this takes just a few seconds) you will see a dialog box telling you that the encrypted message is on the clipboard. Open your email program and copy the encrypted message into the message window (by using the 'Paste' command or pressing control-V). The encrypted message consists entirely of 7-bit ASCII characters and so can be sent as the body of a normal email message. A short encrypted message looks like this:
qh7AkkQx5CW1a8ZOge0HE4cTPfVkSG0cWP49PVkYt3BqNvkT HHtcaRqB53ZXTUxp2Tsm0Y0z4MKkABOl65YrYneT75RnfN5KGRkZ YM6P45gkHJoJUSaCZ.oa8Czx77Pxh1pdsFA2hA3uO8SzapC0bXXwIA7D W5YvW6HMnqvj9ZCUc!7!AZ3ljlLit6xNLFGjxZnV7VPB TjRQgvi92ovLhQy6AOgNGYJDArOfkvFa9jU!1PB0SerX P4DmTtbJSC4P.h4qLQo5ug0nm2!F9gaLFkn.YxFQm3nE5LBz9kEUrphP AqS6GGskuwnpQek2ebKnmX64xYpqHQddqoeb31r1guj3jWW8dbPPVUvD XgHLQlVDY7whAgooZrcw99VIr9GStTuSnXB2UM.b2jNNz4Cwneavw9rd hORmH8Tk8DxuIbBGoGzVmpV!lJJWftr.oA.!6uywbeI06oef1.Ki !mWSxp2cQBSM4qEMck3E4JX1.ln.HRpCyoAImTNwdYvkANAyvIh7ti3q 2s7f3KTKRr7Bx6KsdIttqwXyP.7UK.GvnN4r0Iss4e7j 1s0QVhIAdDT9grMNUh8jh2sVIUl5q3oS!mtpFMmCx9m1edeC |
You can add additional text before or after the encrypted message provided that (i) it does not look like encrypted text and (ii) it is separated from the encrypted message by an empty (i.e., blank) line both before and after. Specify the 'To:' and 'Subject:' fields in your email program as usual, and send the message.
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