Digitally sign and encrypt your email messages
What are “S/MIME” Certificates ?
Digital certificates for signing and encrypting email messages. These certificates are used by mail client (e.g. Mozilla Thunderbird, Microsoft Outlook, Mail.app) in order to digitally sign or encrypt emails, using the S/MIME standard.
What is it used for ?
Recipients of your emails can securely validate whether a message originated from your real email address or not, and also verify if it has been altered in any way. If you want to ensure confidentiality of an email and protect against eavesdropping or email theft, then you can encrypt an email using the S/MIME certificate of one or more recipients of the message. Only these recipients will be able to decrypt and read your message.
What are my options ?
For personal or sole proprietorship business
- S/MIME (email-only) : S/MIME certificate for email signature/encryption including one or more personal email addresses
- S/MIME IV : S/MIME certificate for email signature/encryption including one or more personal email addresses and the information of the Natural Person associated with this certificate
- S/MIME IV+OV : S/MIME certificate for email signature/encryption including one or more personal email addresses, the information of the Natural Person associated with this certificate and the organization associated with the individual. The Private Key associated with this Certificate is not required to be generated within a QSCD
For enterprises or organizations
- S/MIME (email-only) : S/MIME certificate for email signature/encryption including one or more organization email addresses
- S/MIME OV : S/MIME certificate for email signature/encryption including one or more organization email addresses and the information of the Legal Entity associated with this certificate
