Acrobat 9 Family of Products
Managing Certificate Trust and Trusted Identities
Security Feature User Guide
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Figure 21 Digital ID: Managing trusted identities
From within the Manage Trusted Identities dialog, users import and manage the certificates and certificate
owner data for document recipients they wish to trust. A contact will occasionally be associated with
multiple certificates. Therefore, contacts and certificates are in some respects managed independently of
each other. It is also possible to create a group from any number of contacts so that security can be applied
to all group members with a single action. Users manage contacts, groups, and certificates by choosing
Advanced
(Acrobat) or
Document
(Reader)
> Manage Trusted Identities
and opening the Trusted
Identities Manager.
Figure 22 Manage Trusted Identities menu item
3.3 Adding Someone to Your Trusted Identity List
As shown in
Figure 21
, you build a list of trusted identities by getting digital ID certificates from those who
will be participating in signing and certificate security workflows. You get this information from a server, a
file, or from a signed document. For signing workflows, you can get this information during the signature
validation process. For certificate security workflows involving encryption, you must request the
information ahead of time so you can encrypt the document with the document recipient’s public key.
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