# Secure Mail for Windows So you are stuck on Windows, but would like to be able to exchange PGP/MIME encrypted e-mail? This is a brief guide to get you started! Here are the steps for setting up secure e-mail on Windows: 1. Setup GNU Privacy Guard [[GPG]] (set up a private key) 1. Configure [[Thunderbird]] for e-mail to use GPG Once you get a GPG key you will probably want to explore a variety of interesting applications beyond e-mail that take advantage of the "web-of-trust" that you can now join. Joining the web-of-trust by attending a "Key Signing Party" is beyond the scope of this tutorial. We're going to be using GPG with Thunderbird via the Enigmail extension. For more detailed background on Enigmail see the [[Enigmail Quick Start Guide|http://enigmail.mozdev.org/documentation/quickstart.php.html]]. [[!tag e-mail]]