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Federation Manager Guide › Key and Certificate Management to Secure Federation Messages › How to Send Certificates to Your Partner

How to Send Certificates to Your Partner

The partner that signs a message has to send the associated certificate (public key) to the other partner so that partner can verify the message.

The partner that encrypts a message has to receive the certificate (public key) to from the partner expected to decrypt the message.

The procedure for sending the required certificate file to a partner depends on whether the key/certificate pair is already in the CDS.

The following figure shows the steps for sharing certificate files.

Flow diagram for sending a certificate file to a partner

Follow these steps:

  1. Generate a new key/certificate pair.
  2. Import the key/certificate pair into the CDS.
  3. Export the certificate from the CDS to a file.
  4. Send the certificate file to your partner.