[SPAM] Re: Encrypting signed pdf file

mkl <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.lib.itext.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Metho,

metho wrote
> Currently we store signed pdf in our database and need to sent encrypted
> version over the net, but encrypting it using PDFReader  and PdfStamper
> seems to break certificates existing(adobe reader says they are not
> valid).
> Is there some workaround for that?

You automatically break existing signatures whenever you encrypt a document.
Signatures sign byte ranges in the file, and these file ranges are relocated
and also otherwise changed upon encryption.

> I also tried to sign those pdfs again during encryption but i end with pdf
> with 2 certificates. The new one which is valid and old one which is
> broken(maybe there is some way to delete this one?)

You can delete the original one completely or you can reuse its visual
representation for a new one.

Regards, Mikel



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