
Acrobat 9 Family of Products
Getting and Using Your Digital ID
Security Feature User Guide
Digital ID Management and the Security Settings Console 14
Finding a Digital ID in a Windows Certificate Store File
Adding an ID that Resides on External Hardware
Figure 3 Add Digital ID dialog
.apf Digital IDs no longer supported
Older application versions use a deprecated digital ID format with an .apf extension. .apf is not supported
in 9.0. You must use Acrobat 8.x or earlier to use this type of ID.
2.1.4 Digital ID Management and the Security Settings Console
The Security Settings Console enables users to manage their own digital IDs. Choosing
Advanced
(Acrobat) or
Document
(Reader)
> Security Settings
opens a dialog for adding, removing, and setting the
usage preferences for digital IDs stored on .pfx files, PKCS#11 modules and tokens, roaming ID servers, and
the Windows Certificate Store.
Tip:
You should always back up your private key if you have access to it. Without the key,
encrypted documents cannot be decrypted and opened. To protect and back up private
keys in an enterprise setting, administrators sometimes escrow private keys. If your digital
ID is stored in a file on your local machine, consider copying it to a secure location.
Figure 4 Security settings menu and manager
2.1.5 Setting Identity Information
You can enter default identity (user) information that the application can automatically use as the defaults
for workflows such as creating self-signed certificates and emailing certificate and server settings.
To create default user information: