SSL Trust Issues

India's National Informatics Centre (NIC) has now joined the infamous Dutch CA DigiNotar in issuing fake and unauthorized digital certificates, yet again damaging the faith we place in Certification Authorities to provide high trust identity assurance.

Using PKI-based digital certificates has become a widely accepted means of electronic identity authentication for all kinds of purposes, from logical/physical access control to document signing, server authentication for e-commerce sites and software code authentication.

PDF documents have been common use within business for many years. Protecting PDFs against change is fast becoming a hot topic. Digitally signing PDFs with a certifying signature protects the content and also shows who signed or approved the document. This article explains how you can easily digitally sign PDFs, it covers what is needed to electronically sign PDF documents and the different types of PDF signatures.

Getting a document approved and signed-off is a crucial part of any business, be it an order, sales contract, claim forms, internal HR documents or any other type of document that needs to be clearly agreed and approved preferably with a clear audit trail.