- The Client Certificates tab contains three types of certificates:
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- Premium Certificates are almost always the best choice. A premium certificate is useful for personal
- Client Authentication
- Document Signing
- Email Encryption
- Email Signing
- Don't use the Digital Signature Plus certificate; it is just a limited variant of Premium.
- Email Security Plus offers the possibility to have your private key stored by DigiCert (escrow).
- Both Premium Client Certificates and Document Signing Certificates can be use to sign documents. Certainly in an Adobe Acrobat environment there is a preference for Document Signing certificates.