AS4 Mailbox: Certificates Tab

Use this tab to associate a trading partner's signing and encryption certificates with this mailbox and to override your own Local Listener's signing and encryption certificates, if necessary.

Acquire your trading partner's signing/encryption certificates and provide your trading partner with your signing/encryption certificates. See Acquiring your trading partner's signing and encryption certificates and Creating and providing your signing/encryption certificates.

Trading Partner's Certificates
Encryption Certificate
The name of the file containing your Trading Partner's encryption certificate. The public key of this certificate is used to encrypt payloads of outgoing User Messages.
Specify a value or click Browse to navigate to the file you want to select.
Note: This value is reflected as read-only through the PMode.Security.X509.Encryption.Certificate setting.
Signing Certificate
Select the check box to enable the field.
The name of the file containing your Trading Partner's signing certificate. If the incoming <wsse:Security> header does not contain a <wsse:BinarySecurityToken> element, then this certificate's public key is used for signature validation.
Specify a value or click Browse to navigate to the file you want to select.
Note: This value is reflected as read-only through the PMode.Security.X509.Signature.Certificate setting.
Use encryption certificate
Indicates that your trading partner uses the same certificate for signing and encryption, which is a common practice among 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
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.
If you override the default certificates, you must also exchange the certificates you specify here with your partner.
Signing Certificate Alias
The name of the signing certificate registered with the VersaLex application through the Certificate Manager. This certificate is used to sign selected components (as configured through the PMode.Security.X509.Sign settings) of outbound User Messages and Receipt Signals.
Click Browse to view and select a certificate. Enter the Password for your signing certificate's private key.
Encryption Certificate Alias
The name of the encryption certificate registered with the VersaLex application through the Certificate Manager. This certificate is used to decrypt inbound User Messages.
Click Browse to view and select a certificate. Enter the Password for your encryption certificate.
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.
Exchange Certificates
Invokes the Certificate Exchange dialog box. If you override the default the certificates, you must exchange these alternate certificates with your trading partner.