Thanks Dave this is exactly the kind of kick-start I need on this as it is all new to me at this point. These utilities are running on windows server 2003 standard w/CF7 standard at the moment. I have full access to the box so this should help speed things along for me I would think. Currently I have 107 users/physicians using these utilities and I don't see that list getting much longer for now. Any suggested reading on this would help out here as well since I am so new to this, so anything you can recommend would be a good thing.
Thanks! Bob PDF supports digital signatures to sign and certify documents. Certification prevents the document from being changed; if the document is changed, the certification breaks. Signing simply attests that the user with that certificate did in fact interact with that document at a specific time, providing nonrepudiation, etc. To use digital signatures, each signer will have to have a certificate installed locally. You can either purchase individual certificates for your users, or you can create a certificate infrastructure. Your certificate infrastructure can be completely internal, or it can be based upon a root certificate from a public certificate vendor like Verisign. If your certificate infrastructure doesn't have a public root certificate from a third-party vendor, you will be able to verify signatures within your organization, but when you pass a signed PDF to someone outside your organization the certificate will not verify for those external users - it'll still show the document as signed, but the signature itself will be unverifiable. If you have a Windows server infrastructure (AD, etc), you can add a certificate authority (CA) server to that fairly easily. This will allow you to generate and issue client certificates to all your users very easily. If you have a fairly small number of users, you could simply purchase individual certificates for them to use directly. These are about $20 per user per year. Verisign has a specific certificate product for PDF signing. You can build a server interface for programmatically signing PDFs using the Adobe LiveCycle ES rights management server. This can be integrated with other LiveCycle products to build a workflow process that includes digital signatures. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized instruction at our training centers in Washington DC, Atlanta, Chicago, Baltimore, Northern Virginia, or on-site at your location. Visit http://training.figleaf.com/ for more information! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:306189 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
