Overview of Archive Security

Archive Security in ColdFusion Administrator enables you to securely send and receive your ColdFusion archived files (.CAR) electronically. By signing an archive file, you notify the recipient of the archive file that the file actually came from you and has not been forged or tampered with. By encrypting an archive file, you can help protect the contents of the archive file from intruders.

 

To secure an Archived (.car) file in ColdFusion and then to send and receive it electronically, you will need to:
 

Obtain the security certificate (required for signing .car files).

Archive Security works in conjunction with signed certificates that are either issued by a Certificate Authority or generated by the Key Tool utility provided with Sun Microsystems' JDK1.3. Prior to using the signing features available in Archive Security you will need to:

For more information about requesting and exporting certificates from a Certificate Authority, refer to the Certificate Authority Web's site. For more information about generating and exporting a certificate using the Key Tool utility provided with Sun Microsystems' JDK1.3, refer to documentation supplied with the JDK 1.3.

 

Use Archive Security to secure a CAR file

Use the Archive Security pages in ColdFusion Administrator to:

Electronically send a secure CAR file

After you have a secured CAR file, you then can send and receive the secured CAR file electronically by using one of the following transport methods.

 
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