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Basic Instructions
If you don't already have a digital certificate:
go to https://certificates.security.utexas.edu/
Choose UT austin from the list and click select to get started and use your @austin.utexas.edu address
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This wiki page has an attachment for how to place a signature in Acrobat
Trusting the UT Austin Intermediate Certificate To Allow For Successfully Validation of UT Employee Signed Documents
When someone uses their UT assigned digital certificate to sign a document by default new installations of Adobe Acrobat/Reader will not trust the signature which will result in a warning being displayed when people open up the signed document and verify the authenticity of the certificate used to sign the document. This happens because the certificate company that UT uses for their certificates is not currently built into and trusted by Adobe Acrobat/Reader. So you have to manually trust at least one of the parent certificate in the certificate chain used to generate UT employee digital certificate. This manual trust has to be done on a per-user account basis so if you have multiple users on a computer, each user account will need to go through the process of trusted the parent certificate. You can either manually open up the Adobe Trust Manager in Adobe Acrobat/Reader, select the parent certificate and select the option to "trust" it OR do the following:
- Ensure Adobe Acrobat/Reader is installed on the target computer.
- Download this exported certificate file. This is the UT Austin intermediate certificate used to generate all UT Austin employee digital certificates.
- Double click the exported certificate and Adobe Acrobat/Reader should automatically launch on the computer.
- You will be presented with a Window to trust the certificate. Check off all options as shown in the following screenshot:
- Done. Restart Adobe Acrobat/Reader to put the change into effect. Now when you verify the UT employee digital certificate used to sign a document it should show up as valid.
