Some of the security features Lotus Notes offers include synchronizing your Lotus Notes password with your Microsoft® Windows or IBM® Lotus® Domino™ Web/Internet password, disabling the password prompt when asked for your Lotus Notes password in other Lotus Notes-based programs, and checking or requesting changes to the password settings that your administrator set for you. If you forget your password you can recover your User ID from your administrator.

You can use a Smartcard to login to Lotus Notes and you can store your Internet private keys on your Smartcard. If you lose your Smartcard, you can recover your User ID from your administrator.

In mail, you can use Lotus Notes and Internet certificates for encryption to prevent others from reading intercepted mail messages when they are in transit. You can use digital signatures to reassure the receiver of your mail message that it was you who sent it and not an impostor.

You can set Lotus Notes to locally encrypt all new replicas of databases you create. You can encrypt documents so only people that you send the key to can read those documents. You can set restrictions on what can be done by others in your client, and you can set access control on Lotus Notes databases you manage.

Along with these features, there is much more you can do with Lotus Notes security. Most of the security features offered in Lotus Notes can be found in one dialog box called User Security. You can access User Security by clicking File > Security > User Security (Macintosh OS X users: Notes > Security > User Security).

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