| PDF Reference 1.7 (ISO 32000-1) . See also PDF for Archive (PDF/A) and PDF for Exchange (PDF/X). |
Representing signatures in the PDF language. |
| RFC 3280, Internet X.509v3 Public Key Infrastructure, Certificate and Certificate Revocation List (CRL) Profile. |
CRL revocation checking, chain building, path validation, cross certificates, multiple chains. |
| RFC 2560, X.509 Internet PKI Online Certificate Status Protocol-OCSP. |
OCSP revocation checking. |
| RFC 3161, Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Time-Stamp Protocol |
Timestamping: signing and signature validation. |
| RFC 3281, Attribute Certificate Profile, S. Farrell, R. Housley April 2002. |
Attribute certificates. |
| RFC 2437, PKCS #1: RSA Cryptography Specifications Version 2.0 (1024, 2048, 4096). |
A format used for creating a digital signature object which is embedded in a document. |
| RFC 2898, PKCS #5: Password-Based Cryptography Specification Ver. 2.0. |
Password security. |
| RFC 2315, PKCS #7: Cryptographic Message Syntax, Version 1.5. |
A format used for creating a digital signature object which is embedded in a document. |
| PKCS #11: URI Scheme |
Cryptographic token interface (smart cards, tokens, etc.) |
| RFC 1321, The MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm |
Creating a document hash during signing. |
| RFC 3174, US Secure Hash Algorithm 1 (SHA1) |
Creating a document hash during signing. Deprecated with 11.0. |
| RFC 6234 US Secure Hash Algorithms (SHA and SHA-based HMAC and HKDF) |
Creating a document hash during signing. |
| FIPS PUB 186-2, Digital Signature Standard, describes DSA signatures. |
Digital signatures. Deprecated with 11.0. |
| FIPS PUB 186-3, Digital Signature Standard, describes DSA signatures. |
Digital signatures. 11.0 introduces support for 3 ECDSA named curves. |
| FIPS PUB 197, Advanced Encryption Standard (AES 128, 256). |
Certificate security. |
| ISIS-MTT Specification v.1.1 March 2004. |
Attribute certificates. |
| NIST PKITS “Public Key Interoperability Test Suite Certification Path Validation” |
Chain building and path validation, including cross certificates and multiple chains. |
| OIDS. ASN.1 |
Object identifiers (OIDs) |
| RFC 2396, Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax. |
All. |
| RFC 2595, Using TLS with IMAP, POP3 and ACAP. |
The PLAIN authentication mechanism used by the roaming ID feature. |
| RFC 3778, The application/pdf Media Type. Adobe Systems Incorporated. |
Describes PDF media type, digital signatures, and encryption. |
| ETSI 102 778 PDF Advanced Electronic Signatures (PAdES), Parts 1,2,3 and 4. |
Digital signature; especially LTV. |
| ETSI/ESI Technical Standard (TS) 102 778 |
Digital signatures. |
| JITC: Joint Interoperability Test Command PKI compliance test suite |
DoD-mandated PKI test suite. Compliant since 7.x. See http://blogs.adobe.com/security/tag/jitc. |