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Are S/MIME messages stored on a server still encrypted or already decrypted?

April 26, 2017decrypted encrypted Messages mime s server stored

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Are S/MIME messages stored on a server still encrypted or already decrypted?

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S/MIME messages stored on a server are encrypted. Messages get decrypted at the workstation level. NOTE: The above applies to messages that were sent as encrypted. This applies to S/MIME being used as end-to-end encryption and not as encryption gateway for organization-to-organization encryption.