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# Signing Identities and Certificates

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### Create a signing certificate

* In the lower-left corner of the signing certificates sheet, click the Add button (+) , and choose a certificate type from the pop-up menu.

  You create different [certificate types](https://help.apple.com/xcode/mac/current/#/dev80c6204ec) for use in different provisioning profiles.

### Export a signing certificate

1. In the signing certificates sheet, Control-click the signing certificate and choose Export Certificate from the pop-up menu.
2. Enter a filename in the Save As field and a password in both the Password and Verify fields.
3. Click Save.

The file is saved to the location you specified with a `.p12` filename extension. Alternatively, you can export certificates using the `security(1)` command-line tool.