Purchase publicly trusted Vp Email Certificate to realize the email signature and encryption

1. The current situation and problems of email certificate application

There are many CAs around the world selling publicly trusted S/MIME email certificates, and many email client software support S/MIME email certificate signature and encryption, but why have not email signature and encryption been popularized for so many years? Because the whole process is too complicated, the certificate application and the certificate use are completed by two different manufacturers, and each is only responsible for its own part, which cannot be seamlessly connected to improve the user experience.

Although MeSign Technology has realized the automatic configuration of email certificates, thereby realizing S/MIME automatic email signature and encryption, greatly reducing the threshold for using email encryption and greatly improving the user experience. But the automatic configured email certificates is not a publicly trusted certificate, which causes other email clients prompt untrusted warnings when MeSign APP users to send the signed email to other email client users to exchange public key, making MeSign APP users and other email client users realize S/MIME encryption still does not feel smooth. This is one of the existing problems.

The second problem is that it is very cumbersome for users to apply for email certificates from CA. After getting the certificate, it is very troublesome to import them into various email client software for use, configure the email certificates, and exchange public key with our users etc. This is the most important reason why S/MIME email encryption cannot be widely used.

MeSign Technology solves problem two, but it brings problem one. Now MeSign Technology cooperates with the world's leading CA - Sectigo to automatically provide users with publicly trusted S/MIME email certificate, completely solving certificate automatic configuration, automatic encryption and publicly trusted problems, this is a perfect S/MIME email encryption solution. Please also refer to "Introduction to MeSign Trusted Email Certificate and Publicly Trusted Email Certificate", and users are welcome to purchase Starter Edition and Pro Edition that it will auto-configure publicly trusted Vp Email Certificate for email encryption and digital signature.

2. How to buy and how to use MeSign Vp Email Certificate

Users can choose the Starter Edition or Pro Edition in the pricing page, and click "Buy Now" below to get a publicly trusted Vp Email Certificate online. The difference between the two editions is "Starter Edition" still only validate the user's email control, without validate the user's authentic identity, and the user's signed email will displays the Vp icon that means “Email Validated and publicly trusted” ; while the "Pro Edition" validate the user’s authentic identity, the user’s signed email will display the corresponding identity validation level such as V2/V3/V4 icon.

The difference between applying for an email certificate from a CA is that users only need to purchase the Starter Edition or Pro Edition, then the publicly trusted Vp Email Certificate is auto-configured for use. There is no process of applying for a certificate and configuring a certificate. Users only need to buy and pay directly in MeSign APP or on the MeSign official website. Once the payment is completed, the Vp Email Certificate will be automatically installed and configured for use in MeSign APP, and automatically set as the default email signature certificate, so that when the other email clients receive the signed email sent by MeSign APP, it will display "This digital signature is trusted". Therefore, there is no certificate application guide and usage guide. Please check the Vp Email Certificate in “Settings” – “Certificate Admin”, click “View certificate”, then you can find this certificate path, as show in right screenshot.

Please note that the auto-configured publicly trusted Vp Email Certificate is for used in MeSign APP only, user cannot manually export this certificate to be used in other email client software. But if user uses Windows Outlook, no action is required, MeSign APP has automatically configured this certificate for Outlook and can be used automatically.

MeSign APP has automatically combined the publicly trusted email certificate signature and MeSign trusted email signature with user identity information to perfectly realize the dual signature of email. The signed email can be viewed and displayed the digital signature information correctly by other email client such as Outlook, and MeSign APP will display the MeSign validated identity information, so that the recipient can easily identify the sender’s trusted identity and completely solve the problem of email fraud.

As shown in the figure below, for the same one digitally signed email, the left is the signature information displayed by Outlook that display “This digital signature is trusted”, and the right is the signature information displayed by MeSign APP that display the sender’s “Identity Validated and Publicly Trusted”.