Very Safe Mail is a System extension that places an additional menu on
your Macintosh menu bar. The menu commands can be used with almost all
e-mail applications, including Claris Emailer, Eudora, and Netscape
Navigator, to encrypt (or decrypt) both e-mail messages and attached
data files.
When you encrypt a message addressed to your correspondent, Very Safe
Mail uses your secret key to encode the message and affix your
?signature? to the message. Encryption both locks up the message and
makes the message illegible to anyone who does not have a copy of your
public key. The signature provides additional proof to your
correspondent that the message actually originated from you, and not
from someone else who may have counterfeited your e-mail address.
When you send the message to your correspondent, they will use Very
Safe Mail (and their copy of your public key) to both decrypt the
message and to verify the signature. Two dialog boxes appear during
the decryption process, to inform them that the message text can be
decrypted as they do have the right key, and that the message actually
came from you.
