/text/shared/guide/digitalsign_send.xhp signing documents with digital signatures digital signatures;getting/managing/applying mw transferred one entry from digital_signatures.xhp and added a new entry Applying Digital Signatures MW created this file by splitting shared/guide/digital_signatures.xhp Getting a Certificate You can get a certificate from a certification authority. No matter if you choose a governmental institution or a private company it is common to be charged for this service, for example when they certify your identity. Few other authorities issue certificates free of costs, like the Open Source Project CAcert which is based on the well-known and reliable Web of Trust model and is of growing popularity. Managing your Certificates If you are using Microsoft Windows, you can manage your certificates from the Control Panel applet "Internet Options" on the "Contents" tab page. Import your new root certificate into the Trusted Root Certification Authorities list. If you are using Solaris or Linux, you must install a recent version of Thunderbird, Mozilla Suite, or Firefox software to install some system files that are needed for encryption.how about Mac OS X? If you have created different profiles in Thunderbird, Mozilla, or Firefox, and you want %PRODUCTNAME to use one specified profile for certificates, then you can set the environment variable MOZILLA_CERTIFICATE_FOLDER to point to the folder of that specified profile. Open your Web browser's preferences dialog, select the Privacy & Security tab page, click on Certificates - Manage Certificates. Import your new root certificate, then select and edit the certificate. Enable the root certificate to be trusted at least for web and email access. This ensures that the certificate can sign your documents. You may edit any intermediate certificate in the same way, but it is not mandatory for signing documents. When you have edited the new certificates, restart %PRODUCTNAME. Signing a document Choose File - Digital Signatures. A message box advises you to save the document. Click Yes to save the file. After saving, you see the Digital Signatures dialog. Click Add to add a public key to the document. In the Select Certificate dialog, select your certificate and click OK. You see again the Digital Signatures dialog, where you can add more certificates if you want. Click OK to add the public key to the saved file. A signed document shows an icon Icon in the status bar. You can double-click the icon in the status bar to view the certificate. The result of the signature validation is displayed in the status bar and within the Digital Signature dialog. Several documents and macro signatures can exist inside an ODF document. If there is a problem with one signature, then the validation result of that one signature is assumed for all signatures. That is, if there are ten valid signatures and one invalid signature, then the status bar and the status field in the dialog will flag the signature as invalid. Signing the macros inside a document Normally, macros are part of a document. If you sign a document, the macros inside the document are signed automatically. If you want to sign only the macros, but not the document, proceed as follows: Choose Tools - Macros - Digital Signature. Apply the signature as described above for documents. When you open the Basic IDE that contains signed macros, you see an icon Icon in the status bar. You can double-click the icon in the status bar to view the certificate.WebDAV see issue 32935main dialog IDs are here to lead the user initially to this help pageExamine certificate button Click to open the View Certificate dialog.Accept this certificate temporarily for this session radio button Choose this setting to accept the certificate until you exit %PRODUCTNAME.Do not accept this certificate and do not connect to this Web site radio button Choose this setting to cancel the connection.

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