Security For Your Rice E-mail
The Information Technology department is moving to a simplified password system called NetID that reduces the number of passwords required for access to campus services. To protect data in this new environment and prevent unauthorized access to your e-mail, records and files, we must prevent passwords from falling into the wrong hands.
Encryption is the most important tool that we can use to safeguard your password. Many services at Rice already use encryption. When you read your e-mail with Webmail (TWIG or IMP), or visit our accounts maintenance web site (apply.rice.edu), your web browser is using a type of encryption called Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). SSL is an asymmetric, public-key form of encryption that allows two computers to securely exchange data.
To ensure that your password is protected, we will soon require all e-mail connections to use SSL encryption. Fortunately, almost all e-mail software supports SSL encryption, and in most cases you can simply turn it on and it will work without interruption of your normal e-mail activities. To help with this transition, IT has composed the following web documents. Please select the document for your e-mail software:
E-mail Software SSL Instructions |
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| Apple Mail (MacOS 10.2, 10.3, 10.4) |  |
| Eudora (MacOS 9 and 10) |  |
| Eudora (PC/Windows) |  |
| Microsoft Entourage (MacOS 9 and X) |  |
| Microsoft Outlook 2002 (XP) & 2003 (PC/Windows) |  (2003) (XP) |
| Microsoft Outlook 2000 (PC/Windows) | |
| Outlook Express (PC/Windows) |  |
| Netscape 7.1 & 7.2 (any platform) Mozilla Suite Mail (any platform) Seamonkey 1.0 (any platform) |
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| Mozilla Thunderbird (any platform) |  |
| Pine (on Owlnet or RUF servers) is already SSL compliant; take no action | n/a |
| Pine (other UNIX systems connecting to central mail cluster) | n/a |
| Webmail (TWIG or IMP) is already SSL compliant; take no action | n/a |
