Digital signature and encryption

CAS genesisWorld supports digital signatures and the encryption of e-mails using S/MIME. You can both read and send encrypted e-mails. The encryption applies all along the e-mail's journey.

To digitally sign and send encrypted e-mails you will require the respective certificate. The certificate is installed on the same computer as the Desktop Client and will not be available on the CAS genesisWorld Application Server. This means for example:

• That the certificate will not be installed if you log on to a colleague's Desktop Client. Consequently, you will not be able to read encrypted e-mails on this computer.

This also applies to e-mails which were archived encrypted.

• Rules for encrypted e-mails are not executed as the certificate will not be found on the Application Server and rules are executed by the Application Server.
• Users with access rights to an archived e-mail, will not be able to read encrypted, archived e-mails.

Signing e-mails digitally

The signature assures recipients of the e-mail that the content of the e-mail has not been tampered with in any way while being sent.

Click the Sign this message digitally button.

This ensures that the e-mail is sent with a digital signature.

Receiving digitally signed e-mails

After receiving a digitally signed e-mail, you can set the trust status for the sender of the e-mail. You can set a certificate as being permanently trustworthy, or as being untrustworthy.

If you set a certificate as being untrustworthy, then the associated e-mails will no longer be displayed. This also applies to e-mails which were set as trustworthy in the past.

The settings for the trust status do not apply to CAS genesisWorld Web.

Sending encrypted e-mails

Clicking the Encrypt this message button.

Using this function, the e-mail's content is protected while in transit.

Archiving encrypted e-mails

You can archive an encrypted e-mail either encrypted or decrypted.

In archiving templates you will see that the Archive S/MIME-encrypted e-mails as decrypted e-mail option is available. This option is activated by default, so that the e-mails can be archived in their decrypted form.

Decrypting - encrypted, archived e-mail

Open the e-mail and click Decrypt archived e-mail permanently.

As usual, the participants' access rights apply for a decrypted e-mail.