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
Signing Certificate
The certificate used to verify a signature from an incoming file that is signed. This certificate is optional. 
Specify a value or click Browse to navigate to the file you want to select.
If you do not specify a value, the incoming content's signature is compared to all valid certificates in the local certificate store.
Encryption Certificate
The certificate used to encrypt outgoing files if Encrypted Content is selected on the mailbox V2 tab.
Specify a value or click Browse to navigate to the file you want to select.
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
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.
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
Click Browse to navigate to and select a certificate. Enter the Password for your signing certificate's private key.
Encryption Certificate Alias
The Encryption Certificate Alias is for decrypting incoming encrypted files.
Click Browse to navigate to 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.