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Security
Digital IDs and Certification Methods
Digital IDs and Certification Methods
It is possible to customize and extend the management and usage of digital IDs using
Acrobat JavaScript. In addition, it is possible to share digital ID certificates, build a list of
trusted identities, and analyze the information contained within certificates.
Digital IDs
As you learned earlier, a digital ID is represented with a
signatureInfo
object, which
contains properties of the digital signature common to all handlers, in addition to other
properties defined by public key security handlers. These additional properties are
described below in
Table 12.4:
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SignatureInfo Public Key Security Handler Properties
Property
Description
User-configured appearance name
Chain of certificates from signer to certificate authority
User-specified contact information for determining trust
Bytes covered by this signature
Validity status of the document byte range digest
Validity of the identity of the signer
Numerical validity of the identity of the signeN
Validity status of the object digest
What the signer is trusted for
Password used to access private key for signing
appearance
certificates
contactInfo
byteRange
docValidity
idPrivValidity
idValidity
objValidity
trustFlags
password
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