Entering a Digital Signature in an EXE

Hi,
I've created a tutorial and my software engineers are requesting the deliverable in .EXE. This tutorial is part of a software package and it's eaiser for them to use the EXE. We would like to enter our own digital signature so that the EXE can be safely viewed by our customers, without them receiving the scary message from Microsoft that the executable has not been signed.
We have a digital signature to use, only I have not found a way to "sign" the Captivate tutorial with the signature. I've looked around on the forums and it seems as though the method of delivering tutorials as executables is frowned upon by the Adobe employees. However, this is what my engineers are requesting, and incidentally, the tutorial is actually a "how-to" for Windows 8.
Thanks!
-Olivia

Hello Olivia,
EXE is still an option of delivery where you don't need to worry about Player installations. Signing the EXE may not be possible directly in Captivate but you could do it externally I guess once you have the exe with you. I need to investigate more on this. Will check and come back...
Thanks,
Vish

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Clearing digital signatures

Hope someone can help.
I've used the digital signatures tool under Tools/Forms menu to add sgnature fields for our firm and our clients to sign. What I want is to be able to lock those signatures once they are signed. I have gone to the Properties of each signature box and under the Signed tab, I have checked the middle button for Mark as Read-Only, then selcted just the signature box I want locked. I then add my digital signature and send the document to clients for their signatures.
Problem is that I can still clear the signature I entered after it comes back. I cannot clear the clients' signature but my understanding is that once I enter my digital signature, it should not be able to be changed, even by me.
Am I doing something wrong?

You can set up PDF with multiple signatures -- the challenge is to define "changes" to the document that could invalidate it. Technically adding another signature changes the document. Using a certified document approach that allows form fill-in and digital signatures only means that if anyone make changes other than filling in a form field or signing a signature field, the entire document becomes "invalid".
You can find more information on the certified document approach at:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/digsig_user_guide.pdf

LiveCycle 8.0 Digital Signature shows Orange Flag ONLY IF Blank Form Has Submit or Email Button

My subject line says it all. After a lot of experimenting, including reinstalling Adobe Designer Standard 8.0, I have found that, in Adobe LiveCycle 8.0.1291.1.339988, my drag-and-dropped Document Signature Field will include a clickable orange flag ONLY IF the blank form I started with includes an E-mail button or Submit button. Strange but true. If you then delete these buttons, the orange clickable flag still appears fine.
Try it...
In Adobe Designer Standard 8.0 LiveCycle:
1. File > New.
2. Select Use a blank form, Next.
3. Next.
4. In Form Return Setup dialog box, DEselect Add an Email button and DEselect Add a print button (so that both are NOT checkmarked).
5. Click Finish.
6. Drag a Document Signature Field to the blank page.
7. Click PDF Review tab. Note that no orange clickable flag appears for the user then to be able to use for entering a digital signature.
Close the page.
Try a variation now that will work (yielding an orange clickable flag):
1. File > New.
2. Select Use a blank form, Next.
3. Next.
4. In Form Return Setup dialog box, SELECT either the Add an Email button OR the Add a print button (so that either IS checkmarked).
5. Click Finish.
6. Drag a Document Signature Field to the blank page.
7. Click PDF Review tab. Note that an orange clickable flag DOES appear this time for the user then to be able to use for entering a digital signature.
8. For further test, click the Design View tab and now DELETE the displayed button.
9. Click PDF Review. The flag is still there.
BOTTOM LINE: It at least looks like it's not just "Distribute forms" that requires that you have a button at Blank Form creation time. Also "Digital Signature" functionality requires that you display a button at Blank Form creation time -- which you can then delete.
A bug? Or do I have some major concept wrong -- maybe I'm mis-interpreting the whole Digital Signature concept and process?

Is this in the wrong forum? The problem I am having is with Acrobat's Distribution feature.
Shawn Gallagher
Program Specialist, Records Management, OSS
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>>> MichaelKazlow <[email protected]> 2/18/2010 9:49 PM >>>
Please repost in the Designer forum.

Completing the Digital Signature

We've implemented digital signatures from several of our DMS doc types. Essentially we have a couple of statuses that are set with a Signature Strategy, and when the user sets them and hits "save", they get a message at the bottom of their screen that indicates that they must enter a digital signature. If they hit "enter" at that point, a dialog pops up which allows them to enter a comment and their password (the e-signature.) Clicking the "check mark" closes the dialog and comletes the Digital Signature process.
The "issue" is, that it is not always clear for some of our users what should be done at various steps of the process. To their way of thinking, after they hit save the digital signature box should pop up immediately (no message at the bottom of the screen, no need to hit enter.)
Is there a way to streamline this process at all, so that hitting save immediately elicits the Comment/Signature box?
Regards,
Bill

Hi Bill,
I'm sorry but this behavior means the current standard and as far as I know the pop-up should not be opened directly when
the user hits the save button. So in case this message appears in the status line the user has just to press ENTER again to see the digital signature pop-up.
Best regards,
Christoph

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Hello,
I am new to this forum and could not find a solution for my problem.
I would be very happy, if anybody can help me.
I have developed a new applet based on the standard SAP applet for the digital signature in xMAM30. This applet works fine in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 but it doesn't work with the MobileEngine.exe!
I have already read the SAP note 897289 about this topic, but this note was not the solution for my problem. Because the SAP Standard applet (com.sap.mbs.mam.order.control.SignApplet) in the mamsignapplet.jar works fine in MS IE 6 and with MobileEngine.exe.
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Hello,
The jars have to be "digitally signed". You can have a look here:
http://java.sun.com/developer/Books/javaprogramming/JAR/sign/signing.html
If it is still not wroking, I can find out with the production guys how they do it.
Thank you,
Julien.

Digital Signature - Requirement to Enter User ID

Whassup Ya'll-
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Evening,
In the process of trying to determine why an unidentified {87E4C369-877C-4358-BD5A-C0D0C9C7F30D} recently appeared anonymously in my Startup Manager, I discovered the HPCEE.exe digital signature as been revoked by the Hewlett-Packard Company.
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What is the relevance of the {87E4C369-877C-4358-BD5A-C0D0C9C7F30D} task? Properties gives no indication of its purpose.
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This will bring it right out of the box condition as far as the operating system settings are concerned.
Performing an HP system recovery (Windows 7)
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Adobe Flash Projector EXE files signed with Authenticode digital signatures do not launch and run.

I am failing to digitally sign Adobe Flash projector exe files.
Adobe Flash Projector EXE files signed with Authenticode digital signatures do not launch and run successfully.
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Temporarily disable Digital Signature Checks to Install MS SQL Server 2008 with no Internet Access

I am attempting to install a licensed copy of MS SQL Server 2008 in a Private Enclave that does NOT have Internet access on a Win2008 R2 SP1 server (that is VM - thus I can't reboot and press F8 to select "Disable Driver Signature Enforcement"
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Hi,
As far as I know, it is not recommended to disable digital signature check.
Since we are not familair with installing MS SQL server, please also refer to SQL forums below to see if experts there have more insights regarding the matter.
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/sqlserver/en-US/home
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Excel 2013 crash - related to digital signature?

This is a cross-posting of a thread originally started in Microsoft Answers (Office- Excel) forum, advised to post in this forum by MS support engineer Mohan Suryanarayan (link to other forum: here).
I have a VB macro in file A (which otherwise contains only several Excel Tables with named ranges). My digital signature (for signing code) is attached to file A.
As the macro executes, the Open file dialog is called up so that the User can select a secondary file to open (file B or C).
Files B and C contain several sheets with formulas and Excel Tables, and also their own extensive VB macros. My digital signature is also attached to files B & C.
The remainder of the macro in file A simply executes an update of the Excel Tables in the secondary file, before saving & closing it.
I have been finding that during execution of the file A macro, Excel crashes and closes all open Excel files.
If I remove the digital signature from the secondary files then the macro in file A executes with no problem.
The macro was written in Excel 2007 and on a different laptop, with different digital signature, and used to have no problem at all. When a new laptop was purchased a new digital signature was obtained and placed into all of the files.
Execution of file A is a critical process - I need help with stopping the crash, while maintaining a digital signature in the secondary files (so that their own macros can execute).
Event Viewer error shows the following:
Faulting application name: EXCEL.EXE, version: 15.0.4667.1000, time stamp: 0x543d366c
Faulting module name: mso.dll, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x5447696f
Exception code: 0xc0000602
Fault offset: 0x011aafdd
Faulting process id: 0x2d58
Faulting application start time: 0x01d01e17eafcd0bb
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office 15\root\office15\EXCEL.EXE
Faulting module path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Office15\mso.dll
JL Latham replied:
Tom, all I can give you is relatively non-information. I haven't experienced that type of behavior even in Excel 2013 with digitally signed macros in multiple workbooks. But my digital signature is a commercial one from DigiCert, not
self-cert. I'm not even sure what piece of Excel or Office processes the digital signature (that is, whether it is mso.dll or not). But your whole process has more moving parts than most of mine involving multiple workbooks do - I quite often turn
off .EnableEvents when doing things like that just so event driven macros in the other workbook(s) do not execute.
Do the macros in the 'B files' have to execute during all of this processing in file A? If not, have you tried turning interrupts off:
Application.EnableEvents = False
before starting to work with the B-files? Maybe something in them, such as a Worksheet_Change() or other event triggered process is messing things up?
If you do use Application.EnableEvents=False, remember that you MUST re-enable that later in the code with Application.EnableEvents=True to get responses to things like button clicks, changes in a worksheet or other event driven processes
to run 'normally' again.
Have you looked at this discussion:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2013_release-excel/excel-2013-crashing-immediately-when-attempting-to/ea2ab100-5525-4a0d-a3cf-6977319f954f
Sounds very similar to yours - original signature created in 2007, and crashing in 2013. Some suggestions were made, but whether they fixed the issue or not is unknown: OP never came back and said "fixed it" or "didn't fix it".
I replied:
In answer, the secondary B files don't execute any part of their macros during the A file process, and I hadn't included an EnableEvents = False within the file A code. However, I have just tried it to check if it made any difference and unfortunately it didn't.
I had read the thread you gave a link to before posting, and also the sub threads given within that one, but didn't see anything I thought of immediate parallel other than an Excel 2013 crash.
The way I read the linked thread was that a User added a signature in Excel 2007 and when they tried to open the file Excel (2007?) crashes, although other people using Excel 2013 can open it (not clear whether it means others can open the one with
the 2007 signature or without it).
Anyway, the differences in my situation are that:
(1) my B-files were originally created in Excel 2007 on a different laptop to current and had their own signature attached. I maintain a 'stock' of B-file versions, some of which have the old signature and some the new. If I run the A-file macro
on one of the B-files with the old signature then it executes ok;
(2) I am able to open the B-files ok, no matter whether the signature in them derives from the old laptop with Excel 2007 or the new laptop with Excel 2013;
(3) the macros within the B-files execute ok (this includes any versions of the B-files which still have an old signature attached, by removing the old signature and replacing with the new and executing on the new laptop);
(4) the offending operation which triggers the crash (when the B-files have the new signature attached) is a Resize of the Excel Tables within the B-file. I understand that I may eventually have to find a workaround for this operation but initially
I want to sort out the signature issue (I'm reasonably sure the signature issue is not a red herring where the Resize is the 'real' problem).
Regards, Tom

Hi,
According to your description, this issue occurred with some particular files that stored in SharePoint site. Did the user download the file to local disk to print?
Based on the event log >>Faulting module name: EXCEL.EXE<<, it does not show the root Faulting module. Thus, please try to follow this KB to do general troubleshooting:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2758592
Then, if you have used "printer status application", please go to Device settings -> Installable options -> Printer Status notification and select disable.
If this issue still exists, we may need to collect the App crash dump file:
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/dd996900.aspx
You can try to analyze dump by yourself if you would like to：
How to analyze app crash dump file:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/askperf/archive/2007/05/29/basic-debugging-of-an-application-crash.aspx
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How do I delete a digital signature field?

I have Adobe Acrobat Pro 9 on Snow Leopard. I created a digital signature for a PDF file but it didn't look good, so I decided to delete it. I figured out how to delete the signature, but the signature field with the little red arrow did not delete with my signature. I want my PDF form to revert to the way it was before I created the signature. I cannot simply close the PDF without saving because I'd lose all the information I've already entered. Stupid me forgot to save before attempting the digital signature.
HOW CAN I DELETE the digital signature field? Help!

Hi SM,
The place to look for permission settings is on the Security tab of the Document Properties dialog. You can get there by selecting the File > Properties menu item and then select the Security tab.
One thing to note is if the file is Reader Enabled you will need to use the File > Save a Copy menu item to create a non-Reader enabled version of the file. You cannot edit a Reader Enabled file. As an aside, the Save a Copy menu item won't be there if the file is not Reader Enabled.
If the file was created using Designer (which is only on Windows and I know you are using a Mac) then it has to be edited in Designer.
If the file was certified, then you need to remove (clear) the certifying signature before you can edit the file, and to do that you must have access to the private key that was used as part of that signature operation.
Finally, if the file is encrypted (e.g. Password Security or Certificate Security), you can edit the file, but you have to get Acrobat to realize you are the document owner which means you need the Permissions password or or logged in using a document owners digital ID (the former is only for Password Security and the latter is only for Certificate Security).
Steve

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A recent update seems to have altered the digital signature. Before there was no problem and I used the signature I created in Acrobat 9 after upgrading to X Pro. But yesterday (after the update) I was asked for a password for the first time. Eventually I deleted the ID and tried to create a new on but cannot. I follow the steps - a new ID, then a new PKCS#12 file; I fil lin the details requested then on the next page it asks for a file location and password. I accept the default location and type in a password but after the enter I get a message that the passwords do not match.
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Do you enter the password twice? People have reported that the second password field isn't visible when using a low resolution screen.

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I have created a form which requires a digital signature for approval. Typically, an employee will complete the form in Reader and forward it to a supervisor for approval. The supervisor needs to sign it digitally and forward it to me.
The issue we are having is with those employees who are completing the form in Reader and the supervisor (or someone thereafter) has a more updated version of Reader and cannot sign the document. What can we do to stop this from happening? There is no practical way to keep everyone on the same version of Reader. We will have many more forms which require a signature, and we need this issue resolved. (I am using Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro to create the forms.)
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Any help is appreciated! Thank you!

If you are creating your forms in Acrobat 9 Pro. and then Reader-enabling them for digital signatures, then recipients of the form will need to use at least version 8 of the Adobe Reader. Also, you'll need to do a few things during the authoring stage of your form, if your form changes by role (i.e., additional data is entered, annotations, or multiple signatures). Mainly you'll need to use a certification sig. for the first signature and set permitted changes after certifying.
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http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/acrobat_digsig_userguide_90.pdf
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