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3. Logging In To The CryptoMail Service

After you created a new Email account in the CryptoMail Service, you can log in to your Email account anytime. Logging in involves you providing a correct user name and passphrase for your Email account. Upon successfully logging in, you will able to read, send and manage your Email messages.

3.1 Using The Web Form to Login

The web form is a text box for you to enter your Email account name similar to the web form for the signing up in the pervious step. For different CryptoMail Service other than cryptomail.org, the host name next to the text box of the form will be different.

After you have entered your Email account name in the text box, you press enter key or submit button to continue the login process.

3.2 Entering an Email Account Name

When you need to access your Email account in the CryptoMail Service by logging in, you use a web form that has been described in the last subsection, 3.1 Using The Web Form to Login to enter your Email account name. The Email account name is same as your Email account name for the sign up and your Email name for your Email address.

3.3 Entering an Email Account Passphrase

After the CryptoMail Service successfully validated your Email account name from the user database in our server, you use a Java Applet to enter your Email account passphrase The Email account passphrase must be same as the passphrase that you have entered during the sign up step. Sometimes, depending on network and machine performance, you may expect to wait for few seconds to validate.

When you type your passphrase in the text box, asterisk (*) characters will be show in the text box to prevent other people behind you to read your passphrase behind you. If you enter a incorrect passphrase for your Email account by mistake, you put back to the login screen, and must resubmit the login name again.

3.4 Waiting for Your Session Key Creation

Upon successful login, the server of the CryptoMail Service generates a session key for encrypting the communication between you and our service. The process of generating a session key may be the most computationally expensive event for our service. Depending on the system performance of the moment, the process might take a couple of seconds to 2 minutes.

CryptoMail Users Manual, Version 0.10, 9/25/2000

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