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Providing Document Security
Security Policies
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Certifying PDF Documents
You can apply permissions to a PDF document, but some applications may not respect
these permissions. In these cases, it is desirable to be able to detect unauthorized changes
to the document.
The author signature for a document makes Modification, Detection, and Prevention (
MDP
)
possible. When this type of signature is applied, it is possible to certify the document,
which means that you specify information about its contents and the types of changes that
are allowed in order for the document to remain certified.
You certify the document by applying an author signature to it. If necessary, you can create
an author signature field using Acrobat JavaScript and then sign it as described in
“Signing
Adobe PDF Documents” on page 96
.
Validating Signatures
When you validate a signature, you verify the signer’s identity and assess any changes
made after the document was signed. For an identity to be valid, the signer’s certificate, or
one of its parent certificates that was used to issue the signer’s certificate, must be in your
list of trusted identities, and it must not have expired or been revoked.
Using the Acrobat SDK, you can validate a signature from a plug-in, from Acrobat
JavaScript, or from and external application using IAC.
Security Policies
In Adobe Acrobat 7.0, you can save security settings as policies that you can reuse. Security
policies include the type of security encryption, the permission settings, and information
about who can open the document or change security settings. There are two kinds of
security policies:
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A user policy is developed and applied by an individual user. If you apply the same
security settings to various documents, you can save time by creating a user policy and
then reapplying the user policy to documents without having to specify the security
settings each time. User policies for passwords and public key certificates are stored on
your local computer. If you have access to Adobe Policy Server, you can also create a user
policy that is stored on a policy server and is available only to the person who creates it.
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An organizational policy is created by an Adobe LiveCycle Policy Server administrator
and is stored on a policy server to be shared by a group of users. Adobe Policy Server
controls access to PDF documents and auditing events as defined by the security policy.
You can use Adobe LiveCycle Policy Server only if your company has purchased rights
and made it available to you.
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