Forced to Encrypt - I don't want to :(

[Guest]

Does any one know how to digitally sign an email, and NOT encrypt it?

I can not just sign the email b/c I can't use the certificate in a security
setting because it was only created to SIGN, not to ENCRYPT. The setting
makes me pick an encryption certificate but I do not want to encrypt the
message as well.

Someone mentioned a simple "sign" button? I was going to "Message Options"
and was checking the "Add digital signature to outgoing message" checkbox...

 

[Noel All]

In Outlook Tools || Options || Security || you can Sign and not encrypt, is
that what you meant

 

[Guest]

I can check to just sign and not encrypt, but you have to set up a security
profile first to have those checkboxes available to you. I can't set up a
profile b/c my certificate is only for signing and outlook is making me pick
an encryption cert as well. (but I dont' have one...)

 

[Noel All]

That's very strange because when I tested this about 6 months ago I got a
certificate that too was only for signing and I didn't see any problem like
that.

 

[Guest]

So it didn't make you pick an encryption certificate ? I am using 2000, you ?

 

[Noel All]

I was testing on Outlook 2003 and I got a Class 1 Digital ID from Verisign
as per http://www.verisign.com/support/tlc/per/clientHelp/help/index.htm.
Personally it was a pain because I had multiple email accounts but only one
had a digital ID and if remember rightly OWA users couldn't open the
messages from that account and about half all the other users who received
the message in Outlook would get a certificate error (I was glad when the
test and the ID expired), but while I dont remember too much of the install
I do remember that it went smoothly and had no problem just using the
signing part without having encryption. Sorry not much help (