Secure PDF Output
 
This module allows PDF's to be automatically output as authentic (digitally signed) and protected (encrypted) documents.

BUSINESS BENEFITS:

Time stamped signatures track and verify document integrity. When a document requires numerous approvals in a process, a digital signature with timestamp assures the most recent version is being viewed and that the contents have not been changed.

Digitally signed documents confirms its authenticity. No more fears on your important documents falling into the wrong hands.

Digital Signatures reduce distribution expenditures and improves business performance. Securing documents with digital signatures allows companies to extend the labour and cost savings of electronic document transfer to sensitive materials (e.g. financial disclosures, medical records and contracts). Information can be delivered in a timely manner, accuracy improves, and the costs of printing, scanning and mailing significantly decrease.

Digital Signed Documents comply with Government Regulations. Establishes an Audit trail for legal verification of a chain of events, acceptance and accountability. In addition, it establishes a security framework to use with outsourced partners for privacy handling and accountability

Encryption protects your PDF document. Prevent users from printing, duplicating or even opening your work. The encrypted protection makes it almost no chance of a PDF file getting infected with a virus or trojan, which makes it a safe and trusted way of sharing your work.

Digital Signature Highlights:

Applies standard PDF signatures which can be validated with Adobe Reader or Acrobat. Signature support works as follows:-

• Reads the signer’s digital ID (i.e. the certificate plus corresponding private key) from memory, a disk file, or a secure hardware token. The digital ID is used to generate
  a cryptographic signature for the PDF document.

• The ability to create signatures in existing signature fields or generate new fields which hold the signature. The generated signatures can be invisible, or visible at a particular location on the page. Several signature properties which will be displayed in Acrobat can be specified, such as the reason of the signature, location, contact info, etc.

• Supports all PDF versions up to Acrobat 9. Applying a signature can be combined with encryption (user password, master password, or permissions).

• Uses the SHA-1 algorithm for generating the signatures and supports the RSA and DSA signature algorithms with a key length of up to 4096 bit.

1. Apply user and master passwords, and set access permissions to prevent the document from being printed with Acrobat, disallow text extraction or modification, etc.

• Encryption algorithm: supports 128-bit and 256-bit encryption with the AES algorithm (Advanced Encryption Standard).

• PDF/A for archiving: can generate output according to the PDF/A-1a and PDF/A-1b standards, formally known as ISO 19005-1. PDF/A specifies a standardized subset of PDF for long-term preservation and archiving of PDF documents.

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