
Acrobat 9 Family of Products
Managing Certificate Trust and Trusted Identities
Security Feature User Guide
Changing a Trusted Identity’s Certificate Association 44
3.6.5 Changing a Trusted Identity’s Certificate Association
Contacts in the Trusted Identity Manager only have value when they are associated with certificates.
Therefore, removing a certificate association only makes sense when it is being replaced by another
certificate. For example, someone in your trusted identities list may have replaced a compromised or
expired certificate with a new one. In this case, simply replace the old certificate association with a new
one.
1. Choose
Advanced
(Acrobat) or
Document
(Reader)
> Manage Trusted Identities
.
2. Choose a contact in the left-hand list (
Figure 33
).
3. Choose
Details
.
4. Choose a certificate from the list.
5. Choose
Remove Association
(
Figure 36
).
6. Choose a certificate from the list.
Note:
The certificate list is populated with the currently associated certificate and any unassociated
certificates for the current contact. In other words, the list does not display all of a contact’s
certificates, it displays only those that have no contact association.
7. Choose
Associate Certificate
.
8. Choose
OK
.
Figure 36 Edit Contact dialog
3.6.6 Deleting Contacts and Certificates
It is possible to delete contact information independently from its certificate. The most common scenarios
for deleting trusted identity information include the following:
You no longer share documents with someone and can delete all of their contact and certificate data.
The trusted identity’s contact information or certificate has changed and new data will be imported.
To delete a contact (and optionally a certificate):