Why and when to perform this task
Steps for this task
To receive a CA-signed certificate into
a key database file, follow these steps:
- If you receive an e-mail from a certificate authority containing your
new CA-signed certificate, save that mail in a file, for example, filename.ARM.
- Start the IBM Key Management tool and use it to open the key database
file or cryptographic token from which you created the certificate request.
If you created a request from a key database file, complete the following
steps:
- Start the IBM Key Management tool as described in Starting the IBM Key Management tool.
- Open the key database file (filename.kdb) for the client for which you
want to request a CA-signed certificate. To open the key database file, either
click Open a key database file or select Key Database File > Open from
the menu bar. Type the name and location of the key database file at the prompt.
- Click OK. This opens the Password Prompt window.
- At the prompt, type the password that you specified when you created the
CMS key database file.
- Click OK.
- Select Personal Certificate Requests from the pull-down under Key
database content in the middle of the window.
- To receive your signed certificate into the key database file, click Receive.
The Receive Certificate from a File window is displayed.
- In the Receive Certificate from a File window, type the Certificate
file name and Location for the new digital certificate, or click Browse to
select the name and location.
- To receive your certificate, click OK. The Enter a Label window
is displayed.
- Type a label, such as Production Certificate for MyWeb at My Company,
for the new digital certificate and click OK. The IBM Key Management window
is displayed. The Personal Certificates field shows the label of the
new digital certificate you added.