ipsCA has developed a digital signature plugin based in certificate technology for Adobe® Acrobat® 5.0 software. The plugin extends Adobe Acrobat digital signature capabilities, making electronic documents legally valid. With this feature, Adobe Acrobat users can now send confidential business documents such as competitive bids or employee forms across an enterprise or over the Internet with an electronic credential that ensures the identity of the sender and the integrity of the document.

Through the integration of the digital signature technology with Adobe Acrobat 5.0, businesses of all sizes will now be able to exchange signed documents in electronic format with the same binding validity as if they were in paper form.

A digital signature is even more secure than a written signature because it verifies that the document is coming from the person whose signature is attached and also ensures that the document has not been altered in transit. The recent Federal E-Signature Bill gives digital signatures the same legal weight as written signatures. The digital signature plugin for Adobe Acrobat 5.0 allows users to easily access their digital certificates, which reside securely in browsers or e-mail software, to digitally sign documents.

Adobe Acrobat, The Standard in Electronic Documents...

More and more institutions, insurers and government agencies users are now demanding that their documents be delivered electronically. For many institutions and government entities, only Portable Document Format (PDF) files created with Adobe Acrobat provide the needed security for delivery over the Internet. As a result, many companies have done away completely with paper delivery and will not accept documents in any format other than a PDF.

Delivering your documents by email as a PDF file saves you (and your clients) time and money. You no longer have to spend time waiting for documents to print, making photocopies or running to the Fedex drop box. Adobe Acrobat makes document delivery instantaneous! Send signed documents any time, day or night, without the hassle of waiting for the next mail pickup.

Not only does Adobe Acrobat make document delivery faster, it also saves money on costly postage and overnight courier fees

Easy-to-Use Integration...

With a few clicks of the mouse your documents are “locked in time” and saved as secure, digital Adobe Acrobat PDF files that look exactly like their paper print-outs when viewed on the screen. Acrobat files can be easily emailed or saved to your hard drive or removable media.

Digital Signature Compliant...

Adobe Acrobat 5.0 is fully compliant with the Federal Digital Signature Act. By law, your digital signature, when applied to a document using Adobe Acrobat 5.0 is as valid as a “wet” signature on a paper document. Plus! Acrobat’s built-in signature validation features allow your clients to verify that the signature they see on the screen (or when they print the PDF that you have sent them) is actually yours.

Features of version 2.0

·    Based in Standard X.509 certificates – Signatures can be created using any standard personal certificate, The plugin is available for Windows platforms, and works on top of CryptoAPI, Microsoft cryptographic libraries present in any windows operating system. Certificates for signature can be present in any container supporte by Windows (file, registry, smartcard and token).

·    Multiple Signatures -A document in Acrobat can be signed more than once and by more than one person. Each signature is associated with a version of the document that represents the state of the document when that person signed it .The first time a document is signed, it is saved in an append-only form of PDF that can be appended but not altered. Every time the document is signed after that, the new signature and any changes made since the preceding version are appended to the file. When you view a document with more than one signature, you're viewing the most recent version, but you can open an earlier version in a separate file and compare the two versions to see changes between them.

·    Signature Fields - When an Acrobat document is signed the signature and the related information is stored in a signature field embedded on a page. A signature field is a type of Acrobat form field. You can add a signature field to a page as you sign, or you can use the form tool to create an empty signature field that can be signed later. When you create a field with the form tool, you can have Acrobat execute a script or lock all fields in the document when it is signed. A signature field has properties such as duplication of fields (duplication allows you replicate the signature field in multiple places on the same document allowing you to sign in multiple places with one signature) and bind/invisible signatures (the signature may be masked on the document and will appear only in the signature palette).

·    Stamp Tool - Lets you add permanent text or images to any PDF document, as an Annotation Stamp, compatible with digital signatures present in the document, by just choosing a menu item within Acrobat: No need to launch a separate application. Text and Images may be added in any position: Diagonally across a document as watermarks or as headers and footers. Information you stamp into the PDF document becomes part of the document and is present when it is displayed and printed.

·    Compatibility – U-Sign PDF is compatible with Adobe Acrobat (full sign, stamp and check validity of signature), Approval  (full sign, stamp and check validity of signature), Reader (only check validity of signature) and Reader Extensions (full sign, stamp and check validity of signature).

·    Scanned signature Support – Dynamic Handwritten signature will enable the handwritten signature to be included together with x.509 signature as an “electronic” image of the signature in any Acrobat PDF. The scanned signature can be captured using a digitizer pen and tablet, or can be present in a protected container in a smart card (available for ActivCard Gold Users).

·    International Language support – Support other languages apart from Spanish (English, etc.)

·    OEM capabilities – This version has the capability to be customized for OEM distribution (logos, menus, text, etc.)

For more information, please contact:

IPS-ipsCA

http://support.ipsca.com/support
Address  Edificio Twin Golf A
C/ Peru,6
28290 - Las Rozas
(Madrid)
Spain
Phone  34 91 630 85 68
Fax  34 91 771 07 57
http://www.ipsca.com