Question : Creating digital certificates for individual employee timesheet

I have employee timesheets done in infopath and used in a sharepoint form library. How can I create a digital certificate to be used for the timesheet signature where only each individual employee can sign with their own certificate?

In general, what is the best way to approach multiple, private certificates for each person to sign their timesheet? I'd prefer to do this using a self signed, personal certificate, but does anybody know if I have to have an actual CA to do this??

Has anybody ever done this before??

Answer : Creating digital certificates for individual employee timesheet

Hey there, this Petri article should do the trick: http://www.petri.co.il/install_windows_server_2003_ca.htm

Then, once you have that built, you would have each user request (and have your CA) issue a cert.

http://www.petri.co.il/obtain_digital_certificate_from_online_ca.htm

When you request and and get your cert issued, the default behaviour is the (soft) cert will be copied to the local certificate store of their computer (ie. each user will have their own cert, on their own PC).  When they go to sign an infopath form (you will probably discover there is more SharePoint configuration to come, the above just deals with the CA and user cert as requested), the cert store will present their cert (and won't be aware of others)