### tQSLCert

TrustedQSL and systems that use it, such as ARRL's Logbook of the World, rely on digital certificates for security. To participate in a TrustedQSL system, you must obtain a certificate accepted by that system. The tQSLCert program is used to generate requests for digital certificates and to store the resulting received digital certificates. The steps to obtaining a certificate are:

- Use tQSLCert to generate a certificate request file.
- Send the certificate request file to the organization that issues certificates for the system you wish to use.
- Receive the issued certificate back from the issuer in a file.
- Load the certificate file into tQSLCert.

The main window of tQSLCert shows the certificates that are available. When a certificate request has been created but the accompanying certificate has not yet been loaded into tQSLCert, the certificate will be displayed with this icon:

If there is a problem with the certificate, it will be displayed with the broken-certificate icon:

You can view the properties of a certificate by selecting it (click on it with the left mouse button) and choosing Properties from the Certificates menu.

You can save a certificate by by selecting it (click on it with the left mouse button) and choosing Save from the Certificate menu.