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Hi Steve,

IT WORKS. I created a new certificate with Acrobat and imported it into the windows certificate repository. I exported it to a X.509 certificate file (.cer) and used that to encrypt the document with Livecycle. Adobe Reader was not able to open the encrypted file, but Acrobat was. After that I imported the newly created .cer file into Adobe Reader and it worked.

Here is a short manual for everyone having the same problem:

- Install Adobe Acrobat (there is a test version available)

- open a pdf with it or create new one

- go to Tools > Protection > More Protection > Security Settings, select "Digital IDs" in the tree on the left and click Add ID then follow the wizard steps.

- save the .pfx file somewhere

- double click the .pfx file to import it in the windows key store.

- open the windows key store (howto)

- right click the certificate and select All tasks > export (or something similar, I translated this from German)

- select the X.509 binary format and save the .cer file somewhere

- Use this example to encrypt a PDF file with the Adobe Livecycle ES and Java.

- In the Adobe Reader of the target computer select Document > manage trusted abilities > add contacts > browse and select the .cer file

- open the encrypted document with the Adobe Reader. It should work now.

Thank you very much for your great help, Steve. It helped a lot.

Cheers,

Arne