.Mac account to encrypt Mail messages

If you look at this posting, you can use your .Mac certificate for your Mail program. The readers of this message posted possitive results to this hint. I however do not have the erncyption and digital signing boxes as described. Any suggestions?
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20051121134558157

There are two systems of encryption/signing in widespread use:
One is PGP/GPG, with plug-ins as above.
The other is X.509.
They both offer (at least part of) the same algorithms, but packaged differently.
Now .Mac uses X.509, and this is integrated into Mail. But you can get X.509 certificates from a number of companies, often for free (Thawte is one of them , SwissSign over here too etc). You need the proper certificates in Keychain access, often Mail will do that for you. If the root certificate for a certificate is not yet in the trusted database, it needs to be imported into the X509 keychain (option when double clicking the file in Mac OS X).
I still have trouble as have others to get those certificates working in Mail (the are deemed valid by Keychain access). The checkboxes to encrypt and sign just do not show up in Mail even if the certificates (keys) are available in Keychain access for the very e-mail addresses I want to sent something. Strange - but then my Powerbook is currently in repair because of a hard disk problem.
PGP/GPG works similarly but needs to be installed. GPGMail is a nice plug in for Mail. Many people use it. See http://www.sente.ch/software/GPGMail/English.lproj/GPGMail.html for it, and a link to the rest of the needed software. I got this working like a charm.
HTH
Marc
12" PB G4/1.2GHz- 17" PB G4/1.67GHz - 12" iB G3/500 MHz Mac OS X (10.4.4)

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