1. Encrypting Confidential Student Email
Kevin O’Brien
Daniels Technology Committee

3. Note my “DU-Confidential…” arrived below in my Gmail account and upon clicking on it, I get the screen shown on the next slide--

5. This is screen that comes up only the first time you or your student receives a confidential —be careful on the password rules when entering and click on the “Register” button.

6. This DU secure screen comes up to read the I sent encrypted to my personal Gmail account from my DU account; click on the “Reply” button to send a reply encrypted back to yourself.

7. The reply is automatically encrypted including any attached files or new messages as long as they originate from this University of Denver Secured website. I clicked on the “Send” button to reply. Note the URL address is “

8. This is the Screen that comes up for the DU secure system:

9. Note that the Outlook screen at Daniels shows not only the reply , but also a receipt for when I opened picked up my initial .

10. Note I am starting a new confidential to my Gmail account and it still is encrypted even though the “Subject” field has text before and after “du-confidential” and note also that “du-confidential is not case sensitive. You do need the dash (-) however.

11. Note that this screen came up when I clicked on this in my Gmail inbox; once I supplied my address and password and clicked on the “Sign In” button, I was transported to the next screen of my DU secure encrypted system.

12. My DU secure system; note, if this was a student below, they could “reply” and even attach a file that would be sent back to me encrypted from the student.

13. DU subscribes to Zixcorp’s encryption service; note Zixcorp’s Help—Overview of Features shows that students would be able to reply, but not compose a new message, any encrypted message with this service to anyone at DU since DU is a subscriber.