Click any of these topics:

• To find a person's certificate using their name
• To find certificates in your Contacts
• To download default trusted certificates from your administrator
• To search other address books for trust decisions

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 e-mail 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:
  

  	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 e-mail 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 e-mail 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.

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.

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To find certificates in your Contacts

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." Lotus 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.

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To download default trusted certificates from your administrator

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.

1. Click File > Security > User Security.
Macintosh OS X users: Notes > Security > User Security.

2. Click Identity of Others > People, Services.

3. Select "Find more about people/services."

4. Click the "Download administrative trust defaults" button.

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To search other address books for trust decisions

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

1. Click File > Security > User Security.
Macintosh OS X users: Notes > Security > User Security.

2. Click Identity of Others > People, Services.

3. Select "Find more about people/services."

4. Click the person icon near the top of the dialog box.

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See Also

Accessing servers using certificates
How trust is established for a Notes or Internet certificate
Sending and receiving Notes certificates to establish trust
To retrieve an Internet cross certificate

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