password protected for encrypted emails ?

[Pierre]

hi all,

I want to use the certificate-base encrypted email of OL2K3 but I'm new
to this subject and have a couple of questions:

- are certificate password protected ? I mean, when I sign a message,
will I be prompted for a password to use my private key to sign the
message? and when I send an encrypted email to s/o, with this person
have to enter his/her password to decrypt the mail with his/her private
key?

- when I send an encrypted message, will it be stored crypted or not in
the sent-items folder ?

- when s/o decrypt a message to read it, will the decrypted version
replace the crypted one in the inbox or will he/she be have to decode
it each time he/she wants to read it ?


TIA,
Pierre.

 

[Pierre]

I created a selfsigned test certificate and did the testings myself.

Pierre.