How Can I Secure Document Exchange?

The following certificate usages are available to securely exchange documents with your business partners:

Usages	Usage Description
Sign - Verify	To sign a document or verify the digital signature. In the sender's profile, IBM® webMethods B2B uses the private key associated with the receiver to digitally sign documents. IBM webMethods B2B checks the sender's profile to use the sender’s public certificate that is associated with receiver to verify the document that was digitally signed by the sender.
Encrypt - Decrypt	To decrypt or encrypt documents. In the receiver's profile, IBM webMethods B2B uses public certificate associated with the receiver to encrypt information. IBM webMethods B2B checks the receiver's profile for the private key associated with the sender to decrypt document.
SSL	To enable IBM webMethods B2B to act as an SSL client and connect to a remote secure server. If you enable this usage to send documents, upload a valid private key in the sender's profile. The supported private key file extensions are `.cer`, `.der`, `.pk`,`.pkcs8`, and `.key`. IBM webMethods B2B supports only private keys encoded in `.der` with `.pkcs8` format. NOTE IBM webMethods B2B does not support encrypted private keys.