VeriSign Digital ID: Password

[Pleonasm]

Once a VeriSign Class 1 Digital ID is installed in Outlook 2003 (Windows XP),
can the password protecting the Digital ID be changed? Can the security
level (e.g., low/medium/high) be changed? If so, how?

Thank you for your assistance.

 

[Roberto Restelli]

Hi, Pleonasm.

Pleonasm ha scritto:

Once a VeriSign Class 1 Digital ID is installed in Outlook 2003
(Windows XP)

To be clear, certificate is not installed in OL2003, but in a special
container in Internet Explorer.

can the password protecting the Digital ID be changed?
Can the security level (e.g., low/medium/high) be changed?

Not sure of the answer (usually when I have to do it, I export certificate,
remove it and then re-import it, giving new password and security level),
and maybe another method exists. Better for you to ask on Internet Explorer
newsgroup or security one, for example:
microsoft.public.internetexplorer.security
or, better, doing a little search before asking it (maybe someone else
already posted that question).

Ciao
Roberto

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[Brian Tillman]

Once a VeriSign Class 1 Digital ID is installed in Outlook 2003
(Windows XP), can the password protecting the Digital ID be changed?

Via Internet Explorer, I believe so. I have a cert to which I added a
password and I didn't like being prompted each time I used it, so I removed
the password again. I would think you could remove the password and add a
new one.

Can the security level (e.g., low/medium/high) be changed? If so,
how?

This would surprise me. VeriSign is certifying certain functions and trust
levels. Seems to me that changing the security level of the cert would
violate VeriSign's certification.