SECURITY

Adding a Notes cross-certificate for IDs by Notes mail
If you can route mail to the organization that will cross-certify a user, server, or certifier ID, you can use IBM® Lotus® Notes® mail to add a Lotus Notes cross-certificate. For cross-certification to work, these steps must be carried out twice, with each organization alternately requesting cross-certification.

You cannot use this procedure to create an Internet cross-certificate.

To send an ID for cross-certification

1. Choose File - Security - User Security, select the ID, and enter the password.

2. Click Your Identity - Your Certificates, and then click Other Actions, and then select Mail, Copy Certificate (Public Key).

3. Select the user, server, or certifier ID you want to have cross-certified, and then click OK.

4. Enter the password (if required).

5. Address the cross-certification request to the certification administrator at the other organization, and then click Send.

To cross-certify the ID

1. Open the cross-certification request in your mail file.

2. Choose Actions - Cross Certify Attached ID File.

3. Select the certifier that will issue the cross-certificate. If you choose a non-CA enabled certifier, enter the password for that certifier ID, and then click OK.

4. Complete one or more of these fields:
FieldEnter
Subject nameOrganization or organizational unit certifier to be cross-certified -- for example, /Acme
Subject alternate name listAn alternate name for the subject of the certificate. Alternate names allow you to assign names that are recognizable in a user's native language to an ID file.
Expiration dateDate when the cross-certificate will expire
CertifierFile name of your organization's certifier ID
ServerLocation of the Domino Directory where you want to copy the cross-certificate
5. Click Cross Certify. IBM® Lotus® Domino® places the cross-certificate in the Server - Certificates view of the Domino Directory of the server you specified in Step 5.

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