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This page contains detailed technical information about Acrobat and Reader's security functionality. The information is intended to help developers, administrators, and end users in enterprise environments can deploy, configure, and use the Acrobat family of products in digital signature, encryptions, and other security-related workflows.
Acrobat and Reader also provide a variety of features for integrating 3rd party security products, custom plugins, and customed business processes. These integration points include security handlers for LiveCycle policies and password security, digital ID and certificate, and APIs for digital signatures PKCS#11, MSCAPI, JavaScript, as well as others.
To view a list of security-related documentation, click one of the links below or go to the Security Documentation Library. While these guides may be of interest to developers, they are primarily intended for enterprise users in need of configuring and using clients in an enterprise environment.
| Available guides by version | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Security Administration Guide | N/A |
Client deployment, configuration, and management | ||
| Document Security User Guide | Choosing and using one of the three default security methods | |||
| Digital Signature User Guide | Authoring signable PDFs, signing, and validating signatures | |||
| Sharing Settings & Data Guide (+FDF) | Importing and exporting security settings and data and using FDF files | |||
| Signature and Security Quick Starts | N/A |
N/A | One page guides and keys describing security-related features | |
(Feb 12, 2007)
Use Forms Data Format (FDF) files to send and share various types of data among users, system administrators, and servers.
(Feb 12, 2007)
This specification describes the build properties dictionary of the signature dictionary that third-party software applications use to create signatures.
(Sept 22, 2008)
This document provides guidelines for the programmatic generation of standardized appearances for signatures in PDF documents. Check out earlier versions.
(Feb 12, 2007)
Adobe Acrobat validates a digital signature in accordance with the X.509 standard and RFC 3280. This document is intended for anyone interested in evaluating Acrobat compliance with those features. The document includes test files for those interested in repeating the tests.
(May 2003)
This document provides a reference for the methods, callbacks declarations, and objects used in creating digital signatures.
An overview of the security model for Flash Player compatible content playing inside Acrobat and Adobe Reader.
A description of the digital signature features supported by PDF, how digital signatures are represented in a PDF document, and how they solve the need for trusted documents and signatures.
A description of Acrobat's implementation of PDF language features and how Acrobat validates of digital signatures.
Explains the main causes of redaction errors and provides guidelines for safely sanitizing and converting Microsoft Word documents to PDF. The general principles are also useful for documents authored in other word processing programs.
Provides guidelines for developers who need to develop a Cryptographic Service Provider (CSP) for use with Acrobat on the Windows® platform. The CSP makes it possible for MSCAPI-compliant applications to access digital IDs through an API.
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