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Dear Adobe Acrobat Team, I am adding an annotation and a digital signature to a pdf document through my being-developed application, however when open that pdf with adobe acrobat, it validates the signature, and reports that "Annotations Modified" under the validated signature in the signatures panel, so why do acrobat behaves that way?

Yes lrosenth, that's true, but even with document that has the comment in in an update table ( in an incremental update section ) before
the the incremental update of the digital signature, the same probelm appears?
Can you please have a look at an example of such document at:
http://ge.tt/4nOkpfK/v/0
Thank you.

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Files encrypted and digital signed with cFolders

Dear all,
Currently I'm involved on a PPS project with cFolders. This project has legal requirements that consist in implementing encryption and digital signature in files which will be uploaded to cFolders. I've been searching on SAP Help, SDN and Service Marketplace about APIs to work with cFolders with encryption and digital signatures, but I didn't find related documents. It seems there is no documentation regarding such scenarios...
Anyone has experience in cFolders with files encrypted and digital signed?
Thanks in advance & regards,
Ricardo.

Hi Federico
If I understood your solution you are signing your documents in a Webservice provided from a CA. For that youu2019ve created an RFC dest type G over ssl (https) and used the class CL_HTTP_CLIENT. So your requirement is only to sign documents, right?
Well my scenario seems a little bit different as Iu2019ve to encrypt the file and also sign it. The signature is done on useru2019s laptop trough a smartcard (hardware device connected via USB that reads the chip the certificate assigned to our identity card) and cannot be signed from other entity than the user itself.
Did you explore the PGP alternative? cFolders supports this kind of files (*.pgp). The PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) is a popular program used to encrypt and decrypt files, e-mails, etc.
Today I installed a trial version of a PGP tool. I tested the encryption/signature with files on my desktop and it works fine. I tested a Public Key scenario where the owner publishes his PK in cFolders and the requester gets this PK in cFolders as well. The requester now can encrypt documents and upload them to cFolders with the public key provided by the owner; the owner itself has the private key to open the encrypted file (extension .pgp) after upload. But over the encrypted file the requester must sign it with his private key (another certificate) provided by a CA and here starts the second challenge...
In cFolders after the file upload the system should gets the requester digital signature and sends it to CA for validation, only after that we know if the requester is a trusted partner or not. To do this we are thinking to use a Webservice provided by the CA, however I don't know how to extract/get the signature in the file encrypted/signed from PGP and uploaded to cFolders.
Do you have any idea?
Thanks & regards,
Ricardo.

Outlook Pro 2013 Crashes On Send After Checking ENCRYPTION and DIGITAL SIGNING

I bought and imported a Digital ID today. After doing so I went in and checked the boxes in TRUST CENTER to allow for ENCRYPTION and DIGITAL SIGNING. After doing so, every time I hit SEND on my emails, it sits, spins, sits, and never recovers. The application
hang error is below. Please note that the SOFTWARE PROTECTION SERVICE seems to stop working in EVENT VIEWER as well before each app hang.
If I go in, UNCHECK those security settings, and reopen OUTLOOK, all is well.
OUTLOOK EVENT LOG
Log Name:      Application
Source:        Application Hang
Date:          6/10/2013 1:05:22 PM
Event ID:      1002
Task Category: (101)
Level:         Error
Keywords:      Classic
User:          N/A
Computer:      MS-Home
Description:
The program OUTLOOK.EXE version 15.0.4505.1002 stopped interacting with Windows and was closed. To see if more information about the problem is available, check the problem history in the Action Center control panel.
Process ID: 2138
Start Time: 01ce65fb8d98576a
Termination Time: 16
Application Path: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office15\OUTLOOK.EXE
Report Id: e9ecd5fa-d1ef-11e2-be85-6045bdde9c2f
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:
Event Xml:
<System>
    <Provider Name="Application Hang" />
    <EventID Qualifiers="0">1002</EventID>
    <Level>2</Level>
    <Task>101</Task>
    <Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2013-06-10T17:05:22.000000000Z" />
    <EventRecordID>8066</EventRecordID>
    <Channel>Application</Channel>
    <Computer>MS-Home</Computer>
    <Security />
</System>
<EventData>
    <Data>OUTLOOK.EXE</Data>
    <Data>15.0.4505.1002</Data>
    <Data>2138</Data>
    <Data>01ce65fb8d98576a</Data>
    <Data>16</Data>
    <Data>C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office15\OUTLOOK.EXE</Data>
    <Data>e9ecd5fa-d1ef-11e2-be85-6045bdde9c2f</Data>
    <Data>
    </Data>
    <Data>
    </Data>
    <Binary>430072006F00730073002D00700072006F00630065007300730000000000</Binary>
</EventData>
</Event>

Run Outlook with safe mode to check the result. ("Outlook.exe /safe")
Create a new Outlook profile to test that.
How to use ADPlus.vbs to troubleshoot "hangs" and "crashes"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/286350
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Mail missing Encrypt and Digitally Sign buttons

I don't have the option of encrypting or digitally signing any e-mails I compose in Mail. I have a valid security certificate in my Keychain Access, as well as valid certificates for my contacts. I can't find an option to show/add the encrypt and digitally sign buttons either.
When composing a new message, the drop down box next to the subject line only gives the following options:
CC field
BCC field
Reply-to address field
Priority field
Customize...
I know where these two buttons should be and what they look like, but they're just not there. Any ideas or suggestions?

I finally have a solution to this problem. I had been trying to use a .cer security certificate issued by Comodo, it had worked just fine on Windows but my Mac didn't seem to like it. I also tried creating my own certificate through OSX, but even after I created it I still couldn't see the buttons.
I had someone direct me to this webpage which ultimately helped me fix the problem:
http://allforces.com/2007/03/02/email-security/
I ended up using Thawte to issue me another security certificate (this time it was an x.509 file), the security certificate automatically opened in Keychain Access and downloaded to the Certificates and My Certificates folder. Once I shutdown Mail and restarted it I had the buttons for both encryption and digitally signed. Of course the encryption button is still greyed out because it is a new certificate and I need to make sure my Address Book contacts have a copy of it before I can encrypt.

Can I open reader and digitally sign pdf in flash?

First off let me say, I have 0 experience with Adobe Flash or Adobe Air, so this may be a dumb question or I may not even be asking in the right place. I currently have an application which uses Adobe Reader to digitally sign PDF files. The PDFs are displayed inline within a webpage. The user must use Adobe Reader because it needs to be FIPS 140 certified. The issue we are running into is with browsers like Chrome and Firefox bunding their own PDF reader, it brakes our application. I am looking for a way to force users to use Adobe Reader. From reading on the web, it looks like this isn't really possible and we are at the mercy of the PDF plugin the user has installed. The idea I thought of, though, would be to write an Adobe Flash application which would display the PDF. I am hoping doing it this way, I could force the use of Adobe Reader and not the PDF plugin of the browser. Does anyone know if this will work? And if it does, will I have all functions of Adobe Reader available (specifically digitally signing)?

for a web based app, you can't easily display a pdf in flash. even for an air app (or any other platform), you can't force anyone to use adobe reader (especially, because not everyone has adobe reader).

How to digitally sign PDF document in VB?

Hi,
I was wondering if there was a way to open a PDF file and digitally sign the document (with the electronic signature info showing on the bottom of the last page) programatically?
Thanks
K

> (1) When I download the SDK, it only has a setup file which I launch - I don't see any documentation in there and no menu item is created.
Where did you download the SDK?
> (2) When I go to the livedocs.abobe.com link and look how to use Javascript to digitally sign documents, the link is blank and is waiting for someone to post a comment.
May be a problem of your browser.
> Does someone know of a VB code that allows you to digitally sign the PDF documents via Javascript?
Look at the JavaScript sample AddSignature in the SDK.

Acrobat Reader 8 and digital signatures

What are the limitations of Acrobat Reader 8 with respect to digital signatures? I have been trying to create a form, that can be distributed through e-mail and digitally signed by Acrobat Reader 8 users, and am getting unpredictable results. It seemed like these users were able to sign this document last week, but today are unable to. Is the digital signature feature entirely stable?
I have read through the documentation and it is vague at best and seems to blur the lines between Acrobat Reader and Professional.

>What are the limitations of Acrobat Reader 8 with respect to digital signatures?
Generally, it can't do them. (Adobe Reader, if I was being picky, the
name was changed after 5.0).
You CAN enable signing using a special function. However, you are
contractually limited by the EULA; to oversimplify, no more than 500
users per form, or uses per form.
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Unable to digitally sign or encrypt messages in Mail

I recently switched from a PC to a Mac and I have been unable to digitally sign or encrypt any of my e-mails. I'm currently running version 3.3 (926.1/926) for Mail and I made sure that my .cer security certificate is located in Keychain Access as well as certificates for my contacts. My certificate is valid because it has the green checkmark next to it.
I know what the *digitally sign* and encryption buttons should look like and where they should be located when composing e-mails, but they are just not there for me. Does anyone have any advice on how to fix this. Does it matter which folder the .cer security certificates should be located in for Keychain Access? Or is there a specific option I need to enable within Mail to be able to see those buttons?
I know that Mail is recognizing security certificates for e-mails that are being sent to me because it is showing the starburst/checkmark icon next to those e-mail addresses, and my Address Book is showing that same icon next to those e-mail addresses for my contacts.

I finally have a solution to this problem. I had been trying to use a .cer security certificate issued by Comodo, it had worked just fine on Windows but my Mac didn't seem to like it. I also tried creating my own certificate through OSX, but even after I created it I still couldn't see the buttons.
I had someone direct me to this webpage which ultimately helped me fix the problem:
http://allforces.com/2007/03/02/email-security/
I ended up using Thawte to issue me another security certificate (this time it was an x.509 file), the security certificate automatically opened in Keychain Access and downloaded to the Certificates and My Certificates folder. Once I shutdown Mail and restarted it I had the buttons for both encryption and digitally signed. Of course the encryption button is still greyed out because it is a new certificate and I need to make sure my Address Book contacts have a copy of it before I can encrypt.
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Bug with digitally signed/encrypted emails

Summary:
In Lion, inbound emails that are digitally signed and/or encrypted do not contain any indicators that show that the email is encrypted and that the sender has digitally signed it.
Even worse, if the contents of a digitally signed email have been altered, Mail does not display any warnings that the message has been tampered with.
Steps to Reproduce:
Send an encrypted and digitally signed email. It will be received without any indicators saying it was signed/encrypted. In addition, alter the digitally signed email source with a text editor, and then send the email (using telnet commands) to the mail server. When received, Mail does not warn the user that the email was modified.
Both of these issues were not present in Mail under Snow Leopard
Expected Results:
Digitally signed/encrypted emails should have visual indicators to show it (see screenshot below showing same email in Lion and a different client). In addition, digitally signed emails that were altered must cause mail to warn the user about the tampering.
Actual Results:
Mail does not show that an email is signed/encrypted. Mail does not show that a digitally signed email has been tampered with.
Neither of these two issues were present in the Mail.app in Snow Leopard.
Anyone found a solution....?

Running OS X 10.7.3 Apple Mail version 5.2(1257)
My signature and encryption work fine for both incoming and outgoing e-mail. However there is an odd thing I see with e-mail received from Outlook senders.
The e-mail from Outlook 2007 and 2010 show in my Apple Mail as Encrypted,Encrypted. Not as Signed,Encrypted as one would expect. Also in some cases I do not see anything in the header to indicate that the e-mail is Signed or Encrypted, unless I open the e-mail a second time.
On the second attempt to view the e-mail I then can see in the header Encrypted,Encrypted when from Outlook. I only see this behavior when the Sender is using MS Outlook or Mozilla Thunderbird.
I hope this bug is addressed as soon as possible.

Distributing Forms after they have been digitally signed.

Adobe Acrobat Pro XI Version 11.0.07
I would be very grateful for help received in responding to my question. I have checked the messages, at length, but cannot find an appropriate answer/solution.
This is my Company Policy document workflow.
1.PDF created with form fields as well Digital Signature Fields.
2. Document is sent to Reviewer1 for approval and Digital Signs. ( any edits are made to document prior to signing)
3. Document is sent to Reviewer2 for approval and Digital Signs.
4.Final reviewer Digital Signs.
Now that the Policy has been approved by the Management Team, the Policy is ready for employees to read and complete the form fields
- Name
- "I have read and understood this document:Check box
- email address
When I go to Distribute forms via internal server I get the following message, "Acrobat is not able to create a usable response file from the returned form because the form restricts need operations"
This allows me to ensure that a management approved policy has been published and we can collate the information as to who has read and not read the document.
Many, many thanks for your assistance
Graeme

So you have something that looks like this, where there is a submit button somewhere on the page and some data you want to submit:
If you get the Properties of the button, and then select the Actions tab you should see something like this:
Then if you select Submit a form and then click the Edit button you should see something akin to this:
Finally, make sure you click the Select fields button and only select fields that are going to contain data. In other words, no signature fields:
That should work for you,
Steve

How to digitally sign PDF document in VC?

Hi all,
i want know how to open a PDF file and digitally sign the document programatically in vc?
Thanks

Do you mean a tool other than Adobe Acrobat or Reader? Since this is the Acrobat SDK, your users would already have Acrobat installed and can sign PDFs just fine.
What would you be adding to that?

Unable to digitally sign and save a PDF document

I am currently using ADOBE ACROBAT 8.0 Professional (Ver 8.1.0). I provide proofreading service for a client. The client provides me with a PDF which I use the comment and mark up tool to indicate required changes. Once all of the comments are complete, I mark the document approved or disapproved and attach a digital signature.
Recently, many files that I have recieved from the client will not allow me to sign and save the PDF. I can save the PDF without the signature but not when it is digitally signed. The error reads:
"The document could not be saved. A number is out of range"
I queried my client to find out if they have made any changes. They have recently upgraded to Illustrator 4 and they create the PDF's for me from the Illustrator files they work from. There are four teams using the same Illustrator program but not all of them are producing files that I cannot sign and save.
Can anyone tell me what the error indicates? Is there a property assigned to the document that I can not recognize that refers to this problem.
Since the files I work on contain proprietary information, I prefer not to attach them to this forum. If anyone is interested in helping, I will share a file to fully explain my problem.

I will try that, thank you.
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Digitally signing using Acrobat XI and Mac OS 10.9.2- won't let me type signature- the box appears but can't adjust font or any other aspect of text.

I just purchased Acrobat XI pro for Mac. I have OS 10.9.2 When I got to digitally sign, it only allows me to sign using certificate- which does not render a legible name- and is an apple authorization certificate. Or if I go to "type text" the only type showing in the box is Helvetica 12. I can't adjust that. then I put my name in and that's it. It does not look like a signature. I was hoping to insert an image
or at least have it look like a signature.
What can fix this?
Darcy

When I click "place signature" I only have one option.
It asks me "How would you like to create your signature?
The only option available to me is "use a certificate- When I attempt to use another option there are some but they are not available to me."use an image" draw my signature, or type my signature
are not available.
For that reason I went to preferences to see what I could do to change the settings- and all I could do was manage the certificate signature- so that it looks better than it did.
As an aside- after doing that- the document went on and the person couldn't sign because it had an "open password" If you also know about that- that would be great.
This is the only reason I purchased the Adobe XI so I could draw my signature or type it and have it appear as a signature.

Digitally Signed PDF crashes Mail and Preview

I've run into an odd situation - if I try to send a digitally signed PDF file using the Mail app or even view that file in the Preview app, those apps crash. The PDF files are created in Adobe Acrobat Pro version 9.1.0 (for the Mac). My Mail and Preview apps are right up to date.
The same PDF file still opens just fine in Adobe Acrobat. If I create exactly the same file, but don't go through the digital signature step, the files open (in Preview) and send (in Mail) just fine.
Anyone else run into this problem and/or have a suggestion on how to avoid it?
(P.S. By "create", I mean I have printed to the "Adobe PDF 9.0" print driver, which creates the base PDF file. Then I have also "secured" the file by requiring a password be entered to change anything. The final step, which seems to be causing the problem, is digitally signing the file.)

The problem may be related to asking Acrobat 9 to output a file format "compatible" with older versions -- along with adding security.
If you check the Console log, I think you will find that the "mdworker" task is also crashing -- even when you open the file successfully with Adobe Reader. I presume this is Spotlight trying to index the file.
Safari will also crash when attempting to view such a PDF. It puts out a Console message indicating invalid AES block size or some such. Presumably this is related to the 128 bit AES security in the PDF file. Using 128 bit RC4 results in a file that doesn't crash Preview, but the document content is garbled by Preview so it's just as bad.
--Bob

Digital Signatures and editing signed documents

Situation - A medical office wants to digitally sign a document after it has been edited (to make it a legal order) but have the form remain unlocked so it can be edited again. They want to be able to accomplish this on a single instance of the form without using the server solution just a form designed in LiveCycle with Javascript powering the transactions. Is this possible?

You can edit a signed PDF document (assuming you are not using the field collection feature). This will not "Invalidate" the signature, but it will change the status of the signature.
I have attached two screen shots to illustrate... To generate these, I signed a PDF, changed some data and re-validated the signature.
ValidationStatus.gif shows the status of the actual signature.
DocStatus.gif shows a "roll-up" status (meaning it checks all signatures on a doc and displays an overview) of the signed document.
Regards
Steve

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