Adobe Reader 8

Set the trust level of a certificate

You can change the trust settings of certificates. For example, if you have verified the fingerprint in a certificate that you received from someone else, you can change the settings so that you explicitly trust all digital signatures and certified documents created with this certificate. You can even choose to trust the certified document’s dynamic content and embedded JavaScript.

A certificate must be explicitly trusted before you can use it to encrypt PDFs for the person associated with that certificate. If you have multiple certificates for a person, set trust levels for at least one of their certificates.

You can also trust a certificate by trusting the root certificate. The root certificate is the originating authority in a chain of certificate authorities that issued the certificate. By trusting the root certificate, you trust all certificates issued by that certificate authority. Exercise caution when trusting root certificates.

  1. Choose Document > Manage Trusted Identities.
  2. Select a contact, and click Details.
  3. Select the certificate name, and click Edit Trust.
  4. In the Trust tab, select any of the following items to trust this certificate for:
    Signatures And As a Trusted Root
    Trusts signatures for this certificate and trusts the certificate as a trusted root so that any other certificates that have this certificate as the root in a certificate chain are also trusted.

    Certified Documents
    Trusts documents in which the author has certified the document with an author signature.

    Dynamic Content
    Trusts movies, sound files, and other dynamic elements.

    Embedded High Privilege JavaScript
    Trusts embedded scripts.

  5. Click OK, click OK again, and then click Close.