Finding Notes® and Internet certificates you trust

You can check your Contacts and the HCL Domino® Directory for all certificates belonging to a specific person. For example, you may want to send encrypted mail to a colleague in your company. To successfully send encrypted mail, HCL Notes® must be able to find your colleague's certificate. If you are not sure Notes® can find your colleague's certificate or whether you trust that person's certificate, you can check for certificates belonging to your colleague.

To find a person's certificate using their name

Procedure

  1. Click File > Security > User Security (Macintosh OS X users: Notes > Security > User Security).
  2. Click Identity of Others > People, Services.
  3. Select "Research name in directory and in your address book," and do one of the following:
    • Enter the name of the person or group you want to search for in the "Internet email or Notes® Name" field. If you enter a group name, all people with certificates in that group are displayed. You can enter any of the following name variations.
    Table 1. Name entry options

    Name

    Description of name

    Joe Smith/ACME

    Notes® user name

    • Smith
    • smith

    Last name

    Joe

    First name--finds all Joes in the Domino® Directory

    jsmith

    Notes® short name

    CN=Joe Smith/O=ACME

    Notes® certificate distinguished name

    Joe_Smith@ACME.com

    Internet email address

    EMAIL=Joe_Smith@ACME.com/CN=Joe Smith/O=ACME

    Internet certificate distinguished name

    ABCWriters

    Notes® group name

    • Click the person icon next to the "Internet email or Notes® name" field, choose an address book you want to search from the "Choose address book" list, and then enter the last name of the person you are looking for in the "Find names starting with" field.
  4. Click the "Research name" button. Notes® displays all certificates belonging to the person you are researching. If you trust a particular certificate (usually this means you have a corresponding cross certificate in your Contacts), the certificate has a check mark next to it under the Trust column.
  5. For more details on viewing specific information for any certificate listed in the "Identity of People and Services" dialog box, or for establishing trust for a certificate, see Certificates for people or services.

To find certificates in your Contacts

Procedure

  1. Click File > Security > User Security (Macintosh OS X users: Notes > Security > User Security).
  2. Click Identity of Others > People, Services.
  3. Select "Show all in your address book." Notes® displays all certificates found in your address book for people and services. If you trust a particular certificate (usually this means you have a corresponding cross certificate in your Contacts), the certificate has a check mark next to it under the Trust column.
  4. For more details on viewing specific information for any certificate listed in the "Identity of People and Services" dialog box, see Certificates for people or services.

Results

To download default trusted certificates from your administrator

About this task

You can download trust decisions found in the Domino® Directory, but only those trust decisions made by your administrator. These trust decisions are implemented as cross certificates in your Contacts.

CAUTION: Trust information in your Contacts might be overwritten by these administrative trust decisions.

Procedure

  1. Click File > Security > User Security (Macintosh OS X users: Notes > Security > User Security).
  2. Identity of Others > People, Services.
  3. Select "Find more about people/services."
  4. Click the "Download administrative trust defaults" button.

To search other address books for trust decisions

About this task

If Notes® can't find the certificates you need, you can browse other address books by selecting the specific address book from a list.

Procedure

  1. Click File > Security > User Security (Macintosh OS X users: Notes > Security > User Security).
  2. Identity of Others > People, Services.
  3. Select "Find more about people/services."
  4. Click the person icon near the top of the dialog box.