Sending secure messages with Confidencial
Let’s say you are Alice, a Confidencial user that wants to send a password to your coworker, Bob, who is not a Confidencial user. This tutorial walks you through how to do this.
See Viewing secure messages with Confidencial for a tutorial on what Bob does once he receives the message
- Go to my.confidencial.io and log in if you haven’t done so already
- In the text input on the Encryption Tools page, enter the password you want to send to Bob
- Enter Bob’s email address in the recipient adder
- Since Bob isn’t an existing Confidencial user, invite him to join by clicking Send Invite to…
- Now that you’ve invited Bob to join, click on his email in the recipient adder to add him to your protected message
- Bob now appears, along with you, in the list of recipients for the message
The recipients list determines who can view protected content. You are automatically added as a recipient of any message or file you encrypt, so you will always be able to decrypt any message or file you protect.
- Click Encrypt
- This produces an encrypted message that you can now send to Bob. Click Copy to Clipboard.
- You can now paste the encrypted message into your preferred messaging tool. In this example, we will use Slack.
The secure message has now been sent to Bob. Bob views the message by accepting his invite to Confidencial and decrypting the message. See Viewing secure messages with Confidencial for a tutorial on how this is done.