Introduction of Adobe CDS

Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) is considered to be the safest way to send important documents worldwide – especially those documents where in you have to ensure that the information does not get changed. However modern technology has found a way to circumvent the security provided by Adobe PDF. With certified digital signatures, businesses can deliver important documents and information to internal and external customers with the assurance that it arrives exactly as it was intended. This is where Adobe Certified Document Signing (CDS) comes into the picture.

Certifying the authenticity of any document has become stronger than ever as business are quickly upgrading to an electronic environment. Digital Signatures are taking the place of physical signatures to validate documents. In such a scenario, certified digital signature capabilities become necessary to businesses.

Adobe Certified Document Signing is designed to allow authors and creators of Adobe PDF files to verify their identity to recipients. Identity verification is generally done by a trusted third-party organization. Adobe (CDS) Certified Document Signing also confirms that the content of the document hasn’t been in any way altered during transmission. With Adobe Certified Document Signing, organizations are able to exchange electronic documents that much more securely and reliably.

Adobe Certified Document Signing is usually embedded within Adobe applications and is quite easy to use. With Adobe Certified Document Signing the author can not only create his or her own PDF digital signature but also get it certified by the relevant Certification Authority. The certified digital signature can then be used to digitally sign Adobe PDF files and thereby secure those PDF documents.

Documents validated with a certified digital signature are significantly different from those signed with a regular PDF digital signature. This is because Adobe Acrobat allows authors to sign PDFs with any x.509 v3 digital certificate; however a PDF document signed with a Certified Document Services (CDS) certificate carry the security assurance of the issuing Certification Authority.

Currently My Credential™ For Adobe is the best CDS available for digitally signing Adobe PDF documents. It has been designed specifically for Adobe PDF documents and is already integrated into and embedded in Adobe Reader and Acrobat, versions 6.0 and higher. Being issued from the Adobe Trusted Root Certificate, certified digital signatures that have been verified by this Root Certificate will only receive the certified signature validation mark.

PDF documents that have been signed with a certified digital signature don’t need to be validated because as soon as they are opened in the Acrobat application, the validity of the certificate is automatically validates and a message displayed to the person viewing the document that the signature and/or contents have been validated.

Additionally, PDF documents that are secured with CDS signing carry the highest level of document integrity and verification because the user or company’s digital credentials are stored on a cryptographic hardware device and have been issued by a WebTrust certified certificate authority under the strictest of guidelines.

Adobe pdf Signing is the ultimate way to secure and validate your Adobe PDF documents. As representatives of a company carrying the Adobe CDS digital signature, the digitally signed PDF documents work to improve the image and standing of your company.

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