# Registering and Managing Certificates

Certificates used for signing DocuWorks documents must be registered with and managed in Windows Certificate Manager. Those certificates are managed separately by respective Windows log-in users.

## About personal and other people certificates

When applying signatures or adding security to documents, certificates containing a private key must be registered with [Personal] in Certificate Manager in advance. If you have obtained a certificate from a Certification Authority via a web browser, the certificate may have already been registered with [Personal] automatically. On the other hand, when configuring the security by using a certificate for a person other than you, register the person's certificate with [Other People].

## About certificates from Certification Authorities

In addition to the above-mentioned certificates, you will need an intermediate certificate and root certificate. Some intermediate certificates and root certificates are registered with Certificate Manager from the beginning.
If your certificate was issued by an intermediate Certificate Authority, the intermediate certificate for the intermediate Certificate Authority must be registered with [Intermediate Certification Authorities]. Also, the root certificate for the root Certificate Authority that issued the intermediate certificate must be registered with [Trusted Root Certification Authorities].
If the certificate was issued by a root Certificate Authority, the root certificate for the root Certificate Authority must be registered with [Trusted Root Certification Authorities].

## How to register a certificate

The procedure below describes how to register a certificate with the certificate store by using Certificate Manager. You can also put it in the Certificate Revocation List (CRL).
Procedure
1.
Open the [Internet Options] dialog box of Windows.
2.
Select the [Content] tab, and click [Certificates].
The [Certificates] dialog box appears.
3.
Click [Import].
The [Certificate Import Wizard] dialog box appears.
4.
Click [Next].
Click [Browse], and specify the certificate file you want to place in the certificate store.
5.
Click [Next].
If the certificate file contains a certificate bearing a private key, enter the password.
6.
Click [Next].
Select [Automatically select the certificate store based on the type of certificate].
7.
Click [Next].
The certificate is registered with the certificate store.
If the certificate has a private key, it is registered with [Personal].
If the certificate does not have a private key, it is registered with the [Other People] tab.
An intermediate certificate is registered with the [Intermediate Certification Authorities] tab.
A root certificate is registered with the [Trusted Root Certification Authorities] tab.