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Welcome to the IBM® Domino 10.0.1 Administrator Help.
Securing
This section describes IBM® Domino® security features, including execution control lists, IDs, and SSL.
SSL and S/MIME for clients
Clients can use a Domino® certificate authority (CA) application or a third-party CA to obtain certificates for secure SSL and S/MIME communication.
Setting up Notes® clients for S/MIME
You can set up an Notes® client to use S/MIME encryption and electronic signatures when sending mail to other users of mail applications that support S/MIME.
Creating Internet certificates for Notes® S/MIME clients
The procedure used to create Internet certificates for IBM® Notes® is the same, whether you use IBM Domino® or a third-party CA to issue the certificates.

IBM® Domino 10.0.1 Documentation
Welcome to the IBM® Domino 10.0.1 Administrator Help.
- What's new in IBM® Domino® 10?
  Learn about all of the new features for administrators in IBM® Domino® 10.
- Overview
  Welcome to IBM® Domino® Administrator Help.
- Installing
  Use this documentation to install the IBM® Domino® server and subsequently deploy the IBM Notes® client.
- Planning
  Use this topic as an overview of planning task.
- Configuring
  Use this information to configure an IBM® Domino® network, users, servers (including Web servers), directory services, security, messaging, widgets and live text, and server clusters. Also use this information to set up IBM iNotes® on a server using Domino Off-Line Services (DOLS).
- Securing
  This section describes IBM® Domino® security features, including execution control lists, IDs, and SSL.
  - Overview of Domino security
    Setting up security for your organization is a critical task. Your security infrastructure is critical for protecting your organization's IT resources and assets. As an administrator, you need to give careful consideration to your organization's security requirements before you set up any servers or users. Up-front planning pays off later in minimizing the risks of compromised security.
  - Server access for Notes® users, Internet users, and Domino® servers
    To control user and server access to other servers, Domino® uses the settings you specify on the Security tab in the Server document as well as the rules of validation and authentication. If a server validates and authenticates the Notes® user, Internet user, or server, and the settings in the Server document allow access, the user or server is allowed access to the server.
  - The database access control list
    Every .NSF database has an access control list (ACL) that specifies the level of access that users and servers have to that database. Although the names of access levels are the same for users and servers, those assigned to users determine the tasks that they can perform in a database, while those assigned to servers determine what information within the database the servers can replicate. Only someone with Manager access can create or modify the ACL.
  - Domino® server and Notes® user IDs
    Domino® uses ID files to identify users and to control access to servers. Every Domino server, Notes® certifier, and Notes user must have an ID.
  - The execution control list
    You use an execution control list (ECL) to configure workstation data security. An ECL protects user workstations against active content from unknown or suspect sources, and can be configured to limit the action of any active content that does run on workstations.
  - Domino® server-based certification authority
    You can set up a Domino® certifier that uses the CA process server task to manage and process certificate requests. The CA process runs as a process on Domino servers that are used to issue certificates. When you set up a Notes® or Internet certifier, you link it to the CA process on the server in order to take advantage of CA process activities. Only one instance of the CA process can run on a server; however, the process can be linked to multiple certifiers.
  - SSL security
    Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is a security protocol that provides communications privacy and authentication for Domino® server tasks that operate over TCP/IP.
  - SSL and S/MIME for clients
    Clients can use a Domino® certificate authority (CA) application or a third-party CA to obtain certificates for secure SSL and S/MIME communication.
    - Setting up Notes® and Internet clients for SSL authentication
      You can set up Notes® or other Internet clients for server authentication to encrypt data and authenticate the server identity when connecting to an Internet server. You do not need an Internet certificate if you set up a client for server-only authentication.
    - Pushing trusted certificates to Notes® clients
      You can create cross-certificates in the Domino® Directory for Internet certifiers and Notes® certifiers and then push the cross-certificates to the Contacts application on Notes clients. The cross-certificates are used to establish client trust of a certifier when accessing servers, reading encrypted S/MIME mail, or installing signed Notes client plug-ins. When you push cross certificates, users are not required to create the cross-certificates or retrieve them from the Domino Directory.
    - Internet certificates for SSL and S/MIME
      Before Internet and Notes® clients can use client authentication or send signed mail, they must have an Internet certificate. To send encrypted mail using S/MIME, they must have the recipient's Internet certificate.
    - Setting up Notes® clients for S/MIME
      You can set up an Notes® client to use S/MIME encryption and electronic signatures when sending mail to other users of mail applications that support S/MIME.
      - Creating Internet certificates for Notes® S/MIME clients
        The procedure used to create Internet certificates for IBM® Notes® is the same, whether you use IBM Domino® or a third-party CA to issue the certificates.
      - Adding an Internet certificate and cross-certificate for encrypted S/MIME messages
        To send an S/MIME-encrypted message, the sender must have the recipient's Internet certificate in their Contacts, an IBM® Domino® Directory, or LDAP directory. The sender must also have a cross-certificate issued for the recipient or for the certifier who issued the recipient's Internet certificate.
      - Dual Internet certificates for S/MIME encryption and signatures
        You can add two Internet certificates to your Notes® ID file and then use one certificate for S/MIME encryption and another for S/MIME signatures and SSL client authentication. Doing so lets you maintain separate public and private key pairs for encryption and electronic signatures and SSL client authentication.
    - Setting up Notes® and Internet clients for SSL client authentication
      You can set up a Notes® or Internet client for client authentication with a server. You cannot use client authentication for SMTP and IIOP connections.
    - Setting up SSL for Notes® or Domino® using SMTP
      A Notes® client or Domino® server can act as an SMTP client when routing mail to an SMTP server. The Notes client or Domino server can use SSL to connect to a Domino server running the SMTP service or to another type of SMTP server. You cannot set up a Notes client or Domino server for SSL client authentication when connecting using SMTP.
    - Using SSL when setting up directory assistance for LDAP directories
      Directory assistance allows you to extend directory services from a server's primary Domino® Directory to other Notes® directories, such as secondary Domino Directories, and to remote LDAP directories. To set up directory assistance, you create a directory assistance database from the DA.NTF template, and then create Directory Assistance documents in the database to configure services for specific directories.
    - OCSP for X.509 certificate revocation checking
      The Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) enables applications to determine the revocation state of an identified certificate. OCSP may be used to satisfy some of the operational requirements of providing more timely revocation information than is possible with certificate revocation lists (CRLs), and may also be used to obtain additional status information. An OCSP client issues a status request to an OCSP responder and suspends acceptance of the certificate in question until the responder provides a response.
  - Encryption
    Encryption protects data from unauthorized access.
  - Name-and-password authentication for Internet/intranet clients
    Name-and-password authentication, also known as basic password authentication, uses a basic challenge/response protocol to ask users for their names and passwords and then verifies the accuracy of the passwords by checking them against a secure hash of the password stored in Person documents in the Domino® Directory.
  - Multi-server session-based authentication (single sign-on)
    Multi-server session-based authentication, also known as single sign-on (SSO), allows Web users to log in once to a Domino® or WebSphere® server, and then access any other Domino or WebSphere servers in the same DNS domain that are enabled for single sign-on (SSO) without having to log in again.
  - Using Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) to configure federated-identity authentication
    Federated identity is a means of achieving single sign-on, providing user convenience and helping to reduce administrative cost. In Domino® and Notes®, federated identity for user authentication uses the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) standard from OASIS.
  - Using a credential store to share credentials
    In this release, the on-premises Domino® server can use a credential store application (credstore.nsf). The credential store is a secure repository for document encryption keys and other tokens necessary for Notes® client users to grant access to applications that use the OAuth (open authorization) protocol. OAuth allows user credentials to be shared with compliant applications so that users avoid extra password prompts.
- Administering
  This documentation provides information about the administration tools for managing and monitoring IBM Domino® servers and databases.
- Tuning
  Use this information to improve IBM® Domino® server, Domino Web server, and messaging performance through the use of resource balancing and activity trends, Server.Load commands, advanced database properties, cluster statistics, and the Server Health Monitor.
- Troubleshooting
  This section describes how to find and solve problems with IBM® Domino® server and Administrator client.
- Glossary

Creating Internet certificates for Notes® S/MIME clients

The procedure used to create Internet certificates for IBM® Notes® is the same, whether you use IBM® Domino® or a third-party CA to issue the certificates.

About this task

The CA and client complete these steps to add a Domino® Internet certificate to the Notes® ID file. A Notes® client can use one Internet certificate or use dual Internet certificates for S/MIME encryption and signatures.

Procedure

Before issuing certificates, the CA must determine if Internet certificates should be created using the existing public and private keys from the Notes® ID file or if the CA wants to issue certificates based on new keys generated from a browser certificate request. If clients use a browser that supports PKCS #12, clients can also import an existing Internet certificate into the Notes® ID file. Depending on the environment, the administrator may choose to use a combination of these options for different users.
The CA adds a trusted root certificate to a Domino® Directory that the client can access.

The client can also add a trusted root certificate to Contacts; however, adding a trusted root certificate to the Domino® Directory simplifies the process of setting up Notes® clients for S/MIME because the trusted root is accessible to many clients.
The client creates a cross-certificate using the trusted root certificate for the CA and stores it in Contacts.
To create a certificate using the existing public and private keys in the Notes® ID file, use these steps:
1. The CA adds an Internet certificate to the Person document.
2. The client authenticates with the home server. Notes® automatically merges the Internet certificate into the ID file.
To use new public and private keys to create an Internet certificate, use these steps:
1. The client requests the Internet certificate from the CA.
2. The CA approves the request, and Domino® automatically adds the client's Internet certificate to the user's Person document.
3. The client merges the Internet certificate into the ID file.

Results

For information about how Notes® clients merge Internet certificates into their ID files, see Notes® Help.