Re: digital signatures

2008-05-30 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Thursday 29 May 2008, Dave Watts wrote: > That would not let you sign PDFs in a way that's readable by Adobe > Reader/Acrobat. It wouldn't let users apply signatures to signature fields > from within Reader, either. Oh no, of course not :-) Rob's initial post wasn't clear on the whys and wheref

RE: digital signatures

2008-05-29 Thread Dave Watts
> GPG would be free, and you can just cfexecute it... That would not let you sign PDFs in a way that's readable by Adobe Reader/Acrobat. It wouldn't let users apply signatures to signature fields from within Reader, either. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Soft

Re: digital signatures

2008-05-29 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Wednesday 28 May 2008, Dave Watts wrote: > 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. > ... Adobe LiveCycle ES righ

RE: digital signatures

2008-05-28 Thread Bob Imperial
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 ha

RE: digital signatures

2008-05-28 Thread Dave Watts
> I've been working on some simple utilities here at work to > convert what people have been doing with paper, yes, that's > right some people are still using paper. Now that I've > converted a ton of paper to web forms and created pdfs for > them along with emails, they've asked me about provi

Re: digital signatures

2008-05-28 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Wednesday 28 May 2008, Imperial, Robert wrote: > providing a way to allow them to digitally sign these documents. I'm not PDF supports this (somewhere...) or you can create detached standards compliant signatures with gpg. Depends on the 'why' and if you have any existing PKI infrastructure...