Stop prompt for access to digital key by applications

[roguin]

How do I stop the prompt to grant permission for Outlook to access my digital
ID (key) every time I send or receive an e-mail which uses the key? Using
Vista Ultimate. I successfully installed my digital certificate (used all
defaults). Now each time I send/reveive a digitally signed message I am
prompted to "allow the application (Outlook 2007) to access the key". I
would love to only give the security password to access this key one time per
opening of Outlook instead of each time I use it. I suspect that on
installation of the key (when I set the password) I set some option that
forces this prompt. However, I cannot find the way to modify these options
for this certificate.

Thanks!

 

[VanguardLH]

in message

How do I stop the prompt to grant permission for Outlook to access
my digital
ID (key) every time I send or receive an e-mail which uses the key?
Using
Vista Ultimate. I successfully installed my digital certificate
(used all
defaults). Now each time I send/reveive a digitally signed message
I am
prompted to "allow the application (Outlook 2007) to access the
key". I
would love to only give the security password to access this key one
time per
opening of Outlook instead of each time I use it. I suspect that on
installation of the key (when I set the password) I set some option
that
forces this prompt. However, I cannot find the way to modify these
options
for this certificate.

So is "key" supposed to mean a certificate? Key makes it sound like
you have a dongle attached to the host.

- Run the certificate manager (certmgr.msc).
- Export the certificate.
- Select "Yes, export the private key".
- Pick a password (can be temporary if you don't intend to keep the
..pfx file around after this conversion of permission option).
- After exporting the key, delete it in certmgr.
- Import the exported cert (double-click on the .pfx file you created
for the export).
- At the window where you enter the password:
o DISABLE the "strong private key protection" option.
o ENABLE the "mark key as exportable" option.

You should now be able to use the cert without the strong protection
prompt. After getting freemail certs from Thawte, I had to do this
procedure for each cert (I had multiple e-mail accounts and a cert for
each one) to get rid of the strong protection prompt.

 

[roguin]

Thanks so much. It's a lot of trouble but this should work. Should be a way
to manag e the properties without deleting and re-installing it though.
Maybe next version.

Thanks again!

Ron