Visit Symantec.com or any other security software vendor assigned by your instructor and download a trial version of encryption software.

a. Use the software to encrypt a file.

b. Send the encrypted file to your instructor and to a friend.

c. Try to open an encrypted file you receive from your friend or from your instructor. Print a screenshot to show what happens.

d. List all the options for importing the key needed to decrypt an encrypted file you receive from your friend or instructor. Which do you think is most secure? Easiest? Explain why.

e. Import (or install) the key needed to decrypt an encrypted file you receive from your friend or instructor. E-mail the decrypted file to whomever sent it to you and obtain verification that it is the plaintext version of the encrypted file they sent you.