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Encryption status indicators

Your administrator sets whether messages that you receive are considered to be strong or weak.

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The message is strongly encrypted.

The message is weakly encrypted.

Check the status of a certificate or certificate chain

If a certificate is included in a received message, or is already stored in the key store on your BlackBerry device, you can check the status of the sender's certificate, or you can check the status of the sender's certificate and all other certificates in the certificate chain.

1.In a message, highlight a digital signature indicator.

2.Press the Menu key.

3.Click Check Sender’s Certificate or Check Sender’s Cert Chain.

S/MIME-protected message options

Change your signing or encryption certificate

Your BlackBerry smartphone uses your encryption certificate to encrypt messages in the Sent Items folder and includes your encryption certificate in messages that you send so that recipients can encrypt their reply messages.

1.On the Home screen or in a folder, click the Options icon.

2.Click Security > S/MIME.

3.In the Signing section or the Encryption section, change the Certificate field.

4.Press the key > Save.

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Change options for downloading attachments in encrypted messages

1.On the Home screen or in a folder, click the Options icon.

2.Click Security > S/MIME.

•To download attachments in encrypted messages automatically, change the Encrypted Attachment Support field to Automatic.

•To download attachments in encrypted messages manually, change the Encrypted Attachment Support field to Manual.

•To prevent your BlackBerry smartphone from downloading attachments in encrypted messages, change the Encrypted Attachment Support field to None.

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