when rohde & schwarz initiates the communications
if rohde & schwarz wants to initiate secure communications with you by e-mail for the first time but does not have any trustworthy key material for you, you will receive an automatic, signed registration e-mail for the rohde & schwarz secure e-mail web interface. initially, rohde & schwarz will hold back the actual e-mail itself that is being sent to you. to ensure that the e-mail is not overlooked and that it does not land in the recycle bin, below you will find two pieces of relevant information regarding the registration e-mail:
- subject: "register to receive an encrypted email"
- from: the e-mail address of your communications partner at rohde & schwarz
you will receive the initial ("one-time") password mentioned in the registration e-mail from your communications partner at rohde & schwarz. for that task, a different communications channel (such as a telephone call or a letter) is used – for your protection – instead of e-mail. you need the initial password to register on the and read your confidential e-mail there.
this registration e-mail is signed with a key that has been issued by the quovadis certification authority that rohde & schwarz uses.
if you are already able to send encrypted e-mails via s/mime,
you can respond to the registration e-mail with a signed e-mail message. the rohde & schwarz encryption gateway extracts your public key from the signed message, validates it, and sends you the confidential information in encrypted form by e-mail. if pgp is used, please register on the rohde & schwarz secure e-mail web interface and upload your public pgp key (see pdf "secure e-mail communications with rohde & schwarz", section 8).
rohde & schwarz secure e-mail web interface:
- the rohde & schwarz secure e-mail web interface mailbox is not a permanent archive. please store your messages and their attachments on your own computer. old e-mails will be deleted from your mailbox after 90 days. accounts are deleted regularly after 180 days of inactivity.
- the maximum storage capacity for your rohde & schwarz secure e-mail web interface account is 50 mbyte.