Foxit PDF Editor for Windows

User Guide

  • Introduction
  • Get Started
  • Read
  • Create
  • Edit
  • Organize
  • Comment
  • Share PDFs
  • Forms
  • Security
    • Check PDF security
    • Password Protection & Certificate Protection
      • Password Protection
      • Certification Protection
        • About certification protection
        • Add a certificate security
        • Change or remove certificate protection
      • Set Security Policies
    • AIP Protect (Pro Only)
    • Remove hidden data
    • Redaction (Pro Only)
    • Windows Information Protection (WIP)
    • FIPS mode
    • Trust settings
  • Signature
  • Accessibility
  • Foxit Admin Console
  • Print
  • Foxit AI Assistant (Available in Subscription Releases and Certain Regions)
  • Appendices

Add a certificate security

  1. Choose Protect > Secure Document > Certificate Protect.
  2. In Certificate Protection dialog box, create intended recipient list for the encrypt document:
  • Click New ID to create and store your self-signed digital ID in:

    New PKCS#12 digital ID file – Stores the digital ID information to a file with the extension .pfx on Windows and .p12 on Mac OS. You can use the files interchangeably across different operating systems. 

    Windows Certificate Store – Stores the digital ID to a common location. Other Windows applications can also retrieve it.

  • Click Import to import a certificate from Windows Certificate store.
  • Click Browse to import a certificate from disk.
  • Click Remove to delete a recipient from recipient list.
  • Click Permission to set document restriction for the selected recipient. About Permission options, please refer to “Add document restrictions” of Password security options.
  1. Select Encryption Algorithm (support 128-bit AES, 256-bit AES and128 bit ARC-FOUR.
  2. Check Don’t Encrypt metadata to encrypt the documents except metadata.
  3. (Optional) Check Save the settings as a new policy to save the current security settings as a policy so that you can apply it to other documents.
  4. Click OK and save the document.

See also “About digital ID