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Acrobat Family of Products Security Feature User Guide External Content and Document Security Adobe Trusted Identity Updates 103 8.4 Adobe Trusted Identity Updates In order to facilitate workflows that use certificates, Adobe occasionally sends new certificates configured as trust anchors to application users. These certificates allow you to validate signatures that are signed with certificates that chain up to those trusted certificates. In other words, you can validate those signatures without the extra steps of trusting each signer's certificate or manually configuring another trust anchor. The application default is to check for updates and then ask if you would like to install them. However, you can modify this behavior as follows: 1. Choose one of the following:  Acrobat and Adobe Reader (Windows): Edit > Preferences > Trust Manager  Acrobat and Adobe Reader (Macintosh): (Application) > Preferences > Trust Manager 2. Configure the options as needed:  Turn the update off or on.  Turn Ask before installing option off or on.  Choose Update Now to get the latest certificates. 3. Choose OK. Figure 82 Automatic updates 8.5 Working with Attachments Before attempting to modify the application's default behavior, you should understand the default behavior. For details, see the following:  "Default Behavior: Black and White Lists" on page 103  "Adding Files to the Black and White Lists" on page 107  "Resetting the Black and White Lists" on page 108  "Allowing Attachments to Launch Applications" on page 108 Note: You cannot attach anything to a document in Adobe Reader. 8.5.1 Default Behavior: Black and White Lists Exercise caution when attaching files to a PDF since some content may adversely impact document integrity or even the document's operating environment. To mitigate the risk inherent in attachments:  Know what the content is and from where it originated.

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Acrobat Family of Products
External Content and Document Security
Security Feature User Guide
Adobe Trusted Identity Updates
103
8.4
Adobe Trusted Identity Updates
In order to facilitate workflows that use certificates, Adobe occasionally sends new certificates configured
as trust anchors to application users. These certificates allow you to validate signatures that are signed
with certificates that chain up to those trusted certificates. In other words, you can validate those
signatures without the extra steps of trusting each signer’s certificate or manually configuring another
trust anchor.
The application default is to check for updates and then ask if you would like to install them. However, you
can modify this behavior as follows:
1.
Choose one of the following:
Acrobat and Adobe Reader (Windows):
Edit > Preferences > Trust Manager
Acrobat and Adobe Reader (Macintosh):
(Application) > Preferences > Trust Manager
2.
Configure the options as needed:
Turn the update off or on.
Turn
Ask before installing
option off or on.
Choose
Update Now
to get the latest certificates.
3.
Choose
OK
.
Figure 82
Automatic updates
8.5
Working with Attachments
Before attempting to modify the application’s default behavior, you should understand the default
behavior. For details, see the following:
“Default Behavior: Black and White Lists” on page 103
“Adding Files to the Black and White Lists” on page 107
“Resetting the Black and White Lists” on page 108
“Allowing Attachments to Launch Applications” on page 108
Note:
You cannot attach anything to a document in Adobe Reader.
8.5.1
Default Behavior: Black and White Lists
Exercise caution when attaching files to a PDF since some content may adversely impact document
integrity or even the document’s operating environment. To mitigate the risk inherent in attachments:
Know what the content is and from where it originated.