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How to install OpenStudio Certificate Authority?

Nick
By Nick
September 2023
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The application Digital signing of documents allows you to:

  • Request a Digital Signature Certificate
  • Digitally Sign Documents with your certificate
  • Verify if the Document is correctly signed and Validate the signature

In this resource, we will go through how you can install our cCertificate Authority to validate documents even offline, without using OpenStudio Verification Service.

Access the application

From the sidebar menu, under Administration, select Digital signing of documents.

You will be provided with a panel that shows the three services you can access. To download the Certificate Authority, go to the service Personal Certificate.

OpenStudio - Digital Signature Services
OpenStudio - Digital Signature Services

Download Certificate Authority

If you use OpenStudio verification service the document will be correctly verified, but if you want to validate your digitally signed documents even when you are offline, or with a Desktop App (such as Adobe Acrobat), you may need to install our Certificate Authority.

You can download it from the bottom tab:

OpenStudio - Digital Signature - Certificate Authority Download
OpenStudio - Digital Signature - Certificate Authority Download

Trust the Certificate Authority

Install the Certificate manually

You can follow this tutorial from Adobe on how to Manage trusted identities.

Install the Certificate from a signed document

If you open a document signed with OpenStudio Digital Signature, you will see it as partially verified at first.

Open the Signature tab, and go through Signature Details and then Certificate Details.

OpenStudio - Desktop Digital Signature Verification - Signature not valid
OpenStudio - Desktop Digital Signature Verification - Signature not valid

In the popup, select the parent certificate (cert.openstudio.one), move to the Trust tab, and click on Add to Trusted certificates.

OpenStudio - Desktop Digital Signature Verification - Add to trusted certificates
OpenStudio - Desktop Digital Signature Verification - Add to trusted certificates

In the confirmation popup, accept and proceed.

OpenStudio - Desktop Digital Signature Verification - Confirm as trusted certificates
OpenStudio - Desktop Digital Signature Verification - Confirm as trusted certificates

In the settings, simply check Certified Documents.

OpenStudio - Desktop Digital Signature Verification - Certified documents
OpenStudio - Desktop Digital Signature Verification - Certified documents

Now if you re-open the software or if you validate the signaturs, you will see that the signature is valid.

OpenStudio - Desktop Digital Signature Verification - Valid Signature
OpenStudio - Desktop Digital Signature Verification - Valid Signature

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