OFTP Mailbox: Certificates Tab
The following settings pertain only to OFTP2 sessions or later.
You must acquire your trading partner's signing and encryption certificates and provide yours to your trading partner. See Acquiring your trading partner's signing and encryption certificates and Creating and providing your signing/encryption certificates.
- Trading Partner's Certificates
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- Signing Certificate
- The certificate used to verify a signature from an incoming file that is signed. This certificate is optional.
- Encryption Certificate
- The certificate used to encrypt outgoing files if Encrypted Content is selected on the mailbox V2 tab.
- Use encryption certificate
- Indicates that your trading partner uses the same certificate for signing and encryption, which is the general practice among most trading partners. When you select this check box, the Signing Certificate field is populated with the same certificate you selected in the Encryption Certificate field.
- My Certificates
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- Override Local Listener Certificates
- Enables fields where you specify signing and encryption certificates to use with this particular partner instead of the certificates you configured for the Local Listener. See Configuring certificates for Local Listener.
- Exchange Certificates
- Displays the Certificate Exchange dialog box, which allows you to send your user and SSL certificates to your trading partner. See Exchanging certificates with your trading partner.
- Signing Certificate Alias
- The Signing Certificate Alias refers to the certificate used to sign outgoing files
- Encryption Certificate Alias
- The Encryption Certificate Alias is for decrypting incoming encrypted files.
- Use signing certificate
- Select this check box to use the same certificate for signing and decrypting your trading partner's messages. The Encryption Certificate Alias and Password are populated to match the Signing Certificate Alias and disabled.