Comment by blknight
8 hours ago
I’m curious: what good would automating signing a PDF through a utility do?
The whole purpose of a signature is that a person signed and agreed to something. That cannot be done automatically.
8 hours ago
I’m curious: what good would automating signing a PDF through a utility do?
The whole purpose of a signature is that a person signed and agreed to something. That cannot be done automatically.
Why wouldn’t a company sign documents they create automatically? This is about a cryptographic signature that lets the user verify authorship, not a visual signature in the PDF, right? So it would still be useful to be able to verify that a bank statement is really from my bank, even if it was generated without human interaction.
Also allowing you to detect whether any changes have been made since the signature was applied.
CEOs often need to sign changes to employment terms or options/vesting terms and have hundreds if not thousands of employees. They don't have the time to go through and sign all of those contracts.
Its no different than the analog ages where a secretary would go through and stamp all the contracts with the CEOs signature.
Those don’t need certified signatures. They just need pdf stamps.
It depends on jurisdiction
Pdf stamps have zero security.
Signing can be cryptographic.
My bank can issue a signed certificate for any of you account movements if you need to provide proof of them. They come signed both digitally and handwritten by the branch's director. But you wouldn't expect the director to be there sitting and signing all certificate requests that arrive, right?
Imagine you need to sign 25 pdf documents. You read them on the screen and then batch-sign them (instead of signing them with the vewing software). This is just an example.