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by on 4:03 pm in Digital Signature, Text Tutorial, Windows Store

There are a few kinds of certificates within the Windows Certificate Store:

Personal Tab – Digital certificates with a private key and a public key are listed under the personal tab.

These are the certificates you will use when applying a digital Signature (signing with a digital signature).


Other People Tab – Digital certificates with a public key only are listed under this tab.

These are certificates used for sending encrypted PDF’s (sending PDF’s so that only a recipient with the corresponding private key can open it).

In most basic terms public keys can be thought of as the mail address and private keys are used to sign PDF’s and open mail sent to the associated public key (mail address).

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