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Office of Information Technology
1000 Faner Drive Mail Code 6535
Faner Hall
Carbondale, Illinois 62901
Fax: 618-453-5261
security@siu.edu
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ENCRYPTING AD DIGITALLY SIGNING WITH ENTRUST
Use the State of Illinois Entrust system for State and University business to encrypt and/or digitally sign files, to encrypt and/or digitally sign e-mails, and to digitally sign e-forms. The method used is generically called Public Key Infrastructure, or PKI, but you do not need to know about PKI in order to use this system.
Some advantages of this State of Illinois system are that it is in common use, forgotten passwords can be recovered, the remote key management is relatively easy, and encrypted files can be shared among groups. Some disadvantages of this system are that directories cannot be directly encrypted, and the remote key management requires an online connection.
- How to Request an Entrust Account
- How to Setup the Entrust Client
- How to Sign Adobe Files
- How to Encrypt Files with Entrust for Windows
- How to Use Entrust in Microsoft Outlook
Other ways of using the Entrust system also exist. (See e-forms for how to digitally sign e-forms.)