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Contents
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Getting Started
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1.1
What’s in this Guide?
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1.2
Who Should Read This Guide?
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1.3
How Should You Use This Guide?
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1.4
Roadmap to Security Documentation
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Getting and Using Your Digital ID
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2.1
Digital ID Basics
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2.1.1
What is a Digital ID?
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2.1.2
Digital ID Storage Mechanisms
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2.1.3
Registering a Digital ID for Use in Acrobat
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2.1.4
Digital ID Management and the Security Settings Console
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2.1.5
Setting Identity Information
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2.2
Generic ID Operations
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2.2.1
Specifying Digital ID Usage
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2.2.2
Sharing (Exporting) a Digital ID Certificate
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2.2.3
Viewing All of Your Digital IDs
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2.2.4
Customizing a Digital ID Name
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2.2.5
Viewing Digital ID Certificates in the Certificate Viewer
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2.3
Managing PKCS#12 Digital ID Files
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2.3.1
Logging in to a Digital ID File
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2.3.2
Finding an Existing Digital ID in a PKCS#12 File
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2.3.3
Adding and Removing Digital ID Files from the File List
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2.3.4
Changing an ID File’s Password
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2.3.5
Changing a PKCS#12 File’s Password Timeout
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2.3.6
Logging in to PKCS#12 Files
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2.3.7
Creating a Self-Signed Digital ID
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2.3.8
Deleting a PKCS#12 Digital ID
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2.4
Managing Windows Digital IDs
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2.4.1
Finding a Digital ID in a Windows Certificate Store File
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2.4.2
Deleting a Digital ID from the Windows Certificate Store
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2.5
Managing Roaming ID Accounts and IDs
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2.5.1
Adding a Roaming ID Account to Get a Roaming ID
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2.5.2
Logging in to a Roaming ID Account
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2.6
Managing IDs Accessible via PKCS#11 Devices
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2.6.1
Adding an ID that Resides on External Hardware
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2.6.2
Changing Passwords
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2.6.3
Logging in to a Device
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Managing Certificate Trust and Trusted Identities
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3.1
What is a Trusted Identity?
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3.2
Adding Someone to Your Trusted Identity List
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3.2.1
Adding a Certificate From a Signature
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3.2.2
Requesting a Digital ID via Email
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3.2.3
Importing a Certificate From a File
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