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Welcome to the HCL Domino 11.0.1 documentation
Welcome to the HCL Domino® 11.0.1 documentation. Here administrators can find information about planning, installing, configuring, and administering Domino 11.0.1.
Securing
This section describes security features, including execution control lists, IDs, and SSL.
Encryption
Encryption protects data from unauthorized access.
Mail encryption
Mail encryption protects messages from unauthorized access. Only the body of a mail message is encrypted; the header information such as text in the To, From, and Subject fields is not.
Using X.509 certificates for mail and document encryption
You can set up the use of X.509 certificates for mail and document encryption for users who run Notes® 8.0.1 or later. Messages retain the Notes format and full message fidelity. This configuration is particularly useful when smart cards are used.

Welcome to the HCL Domino 11.0.1 documentation
Welcome to the HCL Domino® 11.0.1 documentation. Here administrators can find information about planning, installing, configuring, and administering Domino 11.0.1.
- Translated documentation
  The HCL Domino 11.0.1 documentation is currently available in the following languages.
- What's new in Domino® 11?
  Learn about all of the new features for administrators in HCL Domino® 11.
- Overview
  Welcome to HCL Domino® Administrator Help.
- Domino trial
  A trial version of HCL Domino® 11.0.1 is available free of charge.
- Installing
  Use this documentation to install the HCL Domino® server and subsequently deploy the HCL Notes®client.
- Planning
  Use this topic as an overview of planning task.
- Configuring
  Use this information to configure your network, users, servers (including Web servers), directory services, security, messaging, widgets and live text, and server clusters.
- Securing
  This section describes security features, including execution control lists, IDs, and SSL.
  - Overview of Domino security
    Setting up security for your organization is a critical task. Your security infrastructure is critical for protecting your organization's IT resources and assets. As an administrator, you need to give careful consideration to your organization's security requirements before you set up any servers or users. Up-front planning pays off later in minimizing the risks of compromised security.
  - Server access for Notes® users, Internet users, and Domino® servers
    To control user and server access to other servers, Domino® uses the settings you specify on the Security tab in the Server document as well as the rules of validation and authentication. If a server validates and authenticates the Notes® user, Internet user, or server, and the settings in the Server document allow access, the user or server is allowed access to the server.
  - The database access control list
    Every .NSF database has an access control list (ACL) that specifies the level of access that users and servers have to that database. Although the names of access levels are the same for users and servers, those assigned to users determine the tasks that they can perform in a database, while those assigned to servers determine what information within the database the servers can replicate. Only someone with Manager access can create or modify the ACL.
  - Domino® server and Notes® user IDs
    Domino® uses ID files to identify users and to control access to servers. Every Domino server, Notes® certifier, and Notes user must have an ID.
  - The execution control list
    You use an execution control list (ECL) to configure workstation data security. An ECL protects user workstations against active content from unknown or suspect sources, and can be configured to limit the action of any active content that does run on workstations.
  - Domino® server-based certification authority
    You can set up a Domino® certifier that uses the CA process server task to manage and process certificate requests. The CA process runs as a process on Domino servers that are used to issue certificates. When you set up a Notes® or Internet certifier, you link it to the CA process on the server in order to take advantage of CA process activities. Only one instance of the CA process can run on a server; however, the process can be linked to multiple certifiers.
  - SSL security
    Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is a security protocol that provides communications privacy and authentication for Domino® server tasks that operate over TCP/IP.
  - SSL and S/MIME for clients
    Clients can use a Domino® certificate authority (CA) application or a third-party CA to obtain certificates for secure SSL and S/MIME communication.
  - Encryption
    Encryption protects data from unauthorized access.
    - Encryption standards
      HCL Domino® observes a number of encryption standards, in particular, standards that are required or regulated by the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS).
    - Configuring encryption for ID files
      Any ID used with the current HCL Notes® client benefits from the strong security provided by AES encryption.
    - Mail encryption
      Mail encryption protects messages from unauthorized access. Only the body of a mail message is encrypted; the header information such as text in the To, From, and Subject fields is not.
      - Encrypting mail
        Encrypt outgoing, incoming, and saved mail to protect messages while they are in transit and stored in mail databases on the server. Users can encrypt outgoing mail messages sent to recipients who use either Notes® or S/MIME. If recipients prefer to receive mail in MIME format, then encrypted mail will be in S/MIME format. Users can encrypt incoming and saved mail only if they use Notes mail.
      - Configuring AES for mail and document encryption
        You can set up mail document encryption with AES through the use of a Security Settings document and a policy. You can also set AES encryption as the default method of encryption for S/MIME mail, with or without SHA-2 signing, using a NOTES.INI setting in a desktop policy.
      - Viewing the signing and encryption status of Notes® mail
        There is an icon on the status bar that indicates the signing and/or encryption status of an open Notes® mail message.
      - Using X.509 certificates for mail and document encryption
        You can set up the use of X.509 certificates for mail and document encryption for users who run Notes® 8.0.1 or later. Messages retain the Notes format and full message fidelity. This configuration is particularly useful when smart cards are used.
      - Using S/MIME format when sending encrypted mail to mobile device users
        You can specify that encrypted mail sent to designated mobile device users such as Blackberry® users be converted to MIME and encrypted using S/MIME. This feature provides end-to-end encryption.
    - Configuring the level of port encryption and authentication
      You can control the level of port encryption and authentication that is used on an HCL Domino® server.
    - Electronic signatures
      Electronic signatures are closely associated with encryption. An electronic signature verifies that the person who originated the data is the author and that no one has tampered with the data. Users can add an electronic signature to mail messages and to fields and sections of documents. A database designer controls whether or not users can sign fields and sections of a database can be signed; individual users can choose to sign mail messages.
  - Name-and-password authentication for Internet/intranet clients
    Name-and-password authentication, also known as basic password authentication, uses a basic challenge/response protocol to ask users for their names and passwords and then verifies the accuracy of the passwords by checking them against a secure hash of the password stored in Person documents in the Domino® Directory.
  - Multi-server session-based authentication (single sign-on)
    Multi-server session-based authentication, also known as single sign-on (SSO), allows Web users to log in once to a Domino® or WebSphere® server, and then access any other Domino or WebSphere servers in the same DNS domain that are enabled for single sign-on (SSO) without having to log in again.
  - Using Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) to configure federated-identity authentication
    Federated identity is a means of achieving single sign-on, providing user convenience and helping to reduce administrative cost. In Domino® and Notes®, federated identity for user authentication uses the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) standard from OASIS.
  - Using a credential store to store credentials
    A Domino® server can use a credential store application as a secure artifact repository. Examples of secure artifacts include authentication credentials and security keys.
- Administering
  This documentation provides information about the administration tools for managing and monitoring servers and databases.
- Tuning
  Use this information to improve HCL Domino® server, Domino Web server, and messaging performance through the use of resource balancing and activity trends, Server.Load commands, advanced database properties, cluster statistics, and the Server Health Monitor.
- Troubleshooting
  This section describes how to find and solve problems with HCL Domino® server and Administrator client.
- Notices

Using X.509 certificates for mail and document encryption

You can set up the use of X.509 certificates for mail and document encryption for users who run Notes® 8.0.1 or later. Messages retain the Notes® format and full message fidelity. This configuration is particularly useful when smart cards are used.

Procedure

In the Domino® Administrator client, click People & Groups.
Select the names of users who will use X.509 certificates for mail and document encryption.
Click Use X.509 certificate for Notes document encryption, if possible.