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Keychain Access User Guide
- Welcome
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- Get information about a certificate
- Determine if a certificate is valid
- Change the trust settings of a certificate
- Request a certificate from a certificate authority
- Add certificates to a keychain
- Create your own certificate authority
- Create self-signed certificates
- Issue new certificates
- Create a certificate preference
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Copyright
Use Certificate Assistant in Keychain Access to evaluate a certificate by looking at its trust policy to determine if it is valid.
In the Keychain Access app
on your Mac, click Certificates in the Category list, then double-click the certificate you want to evaluate.Choose Keychain Access > Certificate Assistant > Evaluate [certificate name].
Select a trust policy:
To evaluate an email certificate, select S/MIME, then type the email address of the sender.
To evaluate a web server, select SSL, then type the host server’s URL. To get the certificates, select Ask Host For Certificates.
To evaluate other types of certificates, select Generic.
To view the information about a signed certificate, select Code Signing.
For an explanation about certificates and trust policies, click Learn More.
Click Continue.
on your Mac, click Certificates in the Category list, then double-click the certificate you want to evaluate.Thanks for your feedback.
