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23.3. Installing Your Signature Key

Before using any type of signatures in LincDoc eForms or Document Packages, you need to install a signing key file. Installing this file is only necessary before an eForm or Document Package containing an electronic signature is used for the first time.

Note: This installation is typically performed during the LincDoc installation process.

The procedure below assumes that you are using a LincWare-supplied JKS-type signing key (.ks) file.

Note: Once a signing key file is installed, there is currently no way to delete it. However, you can overwrite it with a different file, as necessary. 

1. Verify that you have a signing key (.ks) file.
2. From the system button, click the Configure System option.
   The Configure dialog box appears.
   
3. In the Signing key area, at the bottom of the dialog box, upload the signing key (.ks) file.
   1. Click the upload button (highlighted below) adjacent to the keystore setting.
      
      The File Upload dialog box appears.
   2. Click the Browse button, and navigate to the location of the signing key (.ks) file.
   3. Click the file to select it, and click Open.
      You are returned to the File Upload dialog box, and the selected signing key file's name appears in the middle of the dialog box.
   4. Click Upload.
      You are returned to the Configure dialog box, and keystore present appears adjacent to the keystore setting.
4. Verify that JKS is selected from the keystore type drop-down list. 

   Note: The PKCS12 type is not often used. It is for an Adobe-supplied signing key file. For more information, including details for the additional settings listed below, contact LincDoc Technical Support.

5. Specify the following settings, which should have been supplied to you along with the signing key (.ks) file specified above:
   • keystore password
   • key alias
   • key password

   If you do not have the appropriate information for the settings listed above, contact LincDoc Technical Support.

6. In the upper left corner of the Configure dialog box, click save.
7. Verify that no error messages appear.
   A lack of error messages means that you can now use signatures in your eForms or Document Packages.