Viewing secure messages with Confidencial
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ℹ️ So you’ve received a message protected with Confidencial…now what? This tutorial walks you through how to view the message. Let’s pretend your coworker, Alice, has sent a message (a password) to you, Bob, who has never used Confidencial before. 💡 See for a tutorial on the steps Alice took to send you this message
Along with the protected message from Alice, you will also receive an invitation email to join Confidencial. Click on the button in that email to create your Confidencial account.
After you click the registration link, enter a password and click Continue to create a dedicated Confidencial account or click Continue with Google or Continue with Microsoft to create an account based on an existing Google or Microsoft account, respectively
If prompted, provide consent to Confidencial to access certain information from your Google or Microsoft account. Confidencial requires information such as your email address and name to allow other users to find you and encrypt information for you.
Since this is your first time logging in, click Generate Keys. Confidencial creates your public and private encryption keys at this time. On subsequent logins, the keys you generated will be loaded automatically.
You are now taken to Confidencial’s web app, where you are able to protect and view messages
Copy the Confidencial protected message you received from your messaging tool onto your clipboard. In this example, we use Slack.
🔑 Since this message from Alice was protected before you created an account and generated , this message was protected with a . All messages protected for you from this point forward are protected with the more secure split keys.
Go back to your web browser and paste the protected message into the input box on the Encryption Tools page
⚠️ Be sure to include the “BEGIN CONFIDENCIAL ENCRYPTED MESSAGE” and “END CONFIDENCIAL ENCRYPTED MESSAGE” parts of the protected message when pasting into the input box.
Click Decrypt
You can now view the protected message and copy it into other programs
✅ This is how you view protected messages with Confidencial.
