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<h1 class="topictitle1">Manage certificates from a public Internet CA</h1>
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<div><p>Review this information to learn how to manage certificates
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from a public Internet CA by creating a certificate store. </p>
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<p>After careful review of your security needs and policies, you have decided
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that you want to use certificates from a public Internet Certificate Authority
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(CA), such as VeriSign. For example, you operate a public Web site and want
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to use the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) for secure communication sessions to
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ensure the privacy of certain information transactions. Because the Web site
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is available to the general public, you want to use certificates that most
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Web browsers can recognize readily. </p>
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<p>Or, you develop applications for external customers and want to use a public
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certificate to digitally sign the application packages. By signing the application
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package, your customers can be sure that the package came from your company
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and that unauthorized parties have not altered the code while it was in transit.
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You want to use a public certificate so that your customers can easily and
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inexpensively verify the digital signature on the package. You can also use
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this certificate to verify the signature before sending the package to your
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customers.</p>
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<p>You can use the guided tasks in Digital Certificate Manager (DCM) to centrally
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manage these public certificates and the applications that use them for establishing
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SSL connections, signing objects, or verifying the authenticity of digital
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signatures on objects. </p>
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<p><span class="uicontrol">Manage public certificates</span></p>
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<p>When you use DCM to manage certificates from a public Internet CA, you
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must first create a certificate store. A certificate store is a special key
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database file that DCM uses to store digital certificates and their associated
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private keys. DCM allows you to create and manage several types of certificate
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stores based on the types of certificates that they contain. </p>
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<div class="p">The type of certificate store that you create, and the subsequent tasks
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that you must perform for managing your certificates and the applications
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that use them, depends on how you plan to use your certificates. <div class="note"><span class="notetitle">Note:</span> DCM
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also allows you to manage certificates that you obtain from a Public Key Infrastructure
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for X.509 (PKIX) Certificate Authority.</div>
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To learn how to use DCM to create
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the appropriate certificate store and manage public Internet certificates
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for your applications, review these topics:</div>
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<li class="ulchildlink"><strong><a href="rzahurzahu437completenewstore.htm">Manage public Internet certificates for SSL communications sessions</a></strong><br />
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You can use Digital Certificate Manager (DCM) to manage public Internet certificates for your applications to use for establishing secure communications sessions with the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL).</li>
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<li class="ulchildlink"><strong><a href="rzahurzahu43bpublicsigningcerts.htm">Manage public Internet certificates for signing objects</a></strong><br />
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You can use Digital Certificate Manager (DCM) to manage public Internet certificates to digitally sign objects.</li>
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<li class="ulchildlink"><strong><a href="rzahurzahu43cpubcertsverify.htm">Manage certificates for verifying object signatures</a></strong><br />
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You can use Digital Certificate Manager (DCM) to manage the signature verification certificates that you use to validate digital signatures on objects.</li>
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<div class="parentlink"><strong>Parent topic:</strong> <a href="rzahudcmfirsttime.htm" title="Use this information to learn how to get started managing certificates from a public Internet Certificate Authority (CA) or how to create and operate a private Local CA to issue certificates.">Set up certificates for the first time</a></div>
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<div class="relconcepts"><strong>Related concepts</strong><br />
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<div><a href="rzahurzahu4afinternetvsprivcert.htm" title="Review this information to learn how to determine which type of certificate (public or private) best suits your business needs.">Public certificates versus private certificates</a></div>
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<div class="reltasks"><strong>Related tasks</strong><br />
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<div><a href="rzahurzahupkixmanagepkixlocation.htm" title="A Public Key Infrastructure for X.509 (PKIX) Certificate Authority (CA) is a CA that issues certificates based on the newest Internet X.509 standards for implementing a public key infrastructure.">Manage the request location for a PKIX CA</a></div>
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