# Thunderbird Configuration on Windows for Secure Mail [[Prev|thunderbird15]] | *step 16 of 17* | [[Next|thunderbird17]] ## Share your public key 1. In order for your correspondent to encrypt e-mail to you they must first have your public key * send the ascii encoded version of your public key that you exported when you created your [[GPG key|gpg5]] 1. Uploading your public key to the set of public keyservers is beyond the scope of this tutorial 1. Proceed to the [[Next|thunderbird17]] step [[!img tbird16.png align=left]]