The following is text from a document I wrote for folks at work to setup digital certificates in Outlook. This also works in Outlook Express, but we all know the caveats with OE. By default, email is sent in plain text and anyone with a sniffer can view the content of an email. The purpose of using digital certificates is to ensure “unreadability” of email on the wire. The nice thing about using certificates is only the desired recipient can read the email (when you encrypt) however, the drawback of the initial setup for both sender and recipient can be daunting for the non-technically inclined… continue reading…