Encrypting Data with Guard

You can use the key management functions for the following purposes:

• You want to use your Guard PGP keys in other email clients, e.g. in local email clients.

• You have PGP keys from other PGP applications. You want to use those keys in Guard.

• You want to import your S/MIME certificates to use S/MIME encryption for your emails.

• You have an external contact's public key. In order to send encrypted messages to this external contact or verify received signed messages without having to access a key server, you want to import the partner's public key into Guard.

• You want to provide your public key to an external contact in order to allow the external contact to send encrypted messages to you without the need to access a key server.

You have the following options:

• Managing own PGP keys

• Managing PGP keys of recipients

• Managing own S/MIME keys

• Managing S/MIME keys of recipients

Related topics:

• Password Management

• GuardSettings

Parent topic: Encrypting Data with Guard