SECURING YOUR DATA

Retrieving certificates and cross certificates from your home server
To access IBM® Lotus® Notes® servers in other domains, to verify digital signatures, or to encrypt messages using S/MIME, you must have cross certificates in your Contacts. You can add to your Contacts Internet certificates and Notes and Internet cross certificates from the IBM® Lotus® Domino™ Directory on your home/mail server.

You can do any of the following to retrieve certificates and cross certificates from your home server.

To retrieve your administrator's cross certificates for Notes and Internet certificates

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

2. Click Identity of Others > People, Services.

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

4. Click "Download administrative trust defaults." Notes copies Notes and Internet cross certificates only if the cross certificate was issued by a common ancestor (any certifier listed in the certificate chain).

To retrieve all Internet certificates from the Domino Directory

1. Open your Personal Address book.

2. Click Actions > Retrieve Certificates from Home Server.

Note Retrieving all certificates from your home server may take several minutes to complete. The progress of the certificates being copied over to your Address Book is displayed in the status bar.

To retrieve a Notes cross certificate or Internet cross certificate from the Domino Directory

1. In the Domino Directory, open the Servers > Certificates view.

2. Select one or more Notes or Internet cross certificate and click the "Copy to Contacts" action button in the action bar.

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