Adobe 22002484 Manual page 79

Acrobat Family of Products
Security Feature User Guide
1. Choose Advanced > Security > Manage Security Policies.
2. Choose New.
3. Select Use public key certificates.
4. Choose Next.
5. Enter a policy name and optional description.
6. Configure the Select Document Components to Encrypt panel:
All contents: Encrypts the document and its metadata (Acrobat 3 and later).
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All contents except metadata: Allows for document storage/retrieval systems and search engines
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to have access to the document metadata. A document open or a permissions password will
required to access other document content.
Encrypting everything except the metadata allows continued access to Acrobat's Catalog feature.
By leaving the metadata unencrypted, users can catalog and index the metadata of encrypted
documents, thereby making that data searchable (compatible with Acrobat 6 and later).
Only file attachments: Allows full access to the document and encrypts only the file attachments.
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Permissions cannot be set on attachments. Using password security, a document open password is
required for attachments (compatible Acrobat 7 and later).
7. Check or uncheck Ask for recipients when applying this policy.
If checked, you will not be asked in the next step to select the recipient certificates. Because the
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policy will not be associated with any recipients you will select them when you apply the policy.
If unchecked, you will be asked to select certificates now so that the document recipients will be
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identified in the policy.
8. Choose the encryption algorithm:
Figure 66 Security policy: General settings
Figure 67 Encryption configuration panel
Creating a Reusable Certificate Security Policy
Certificate Security
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