Sure - the certificate is valid and legal, that's not the issue.

It's about trust.  NOT that I trust the validity of the certificate but that I 
trust the OWNER of the certificate.

Let's say that the certificate is from ACME Corp.  I don't have any 
relationship with ACME, so therefore I don't trust them or any document that 
they send me, and don't wish them to do things behind my back.

But if the certificate was from Adobe Systems, where I work, I would certainly 
put them in my trusted list of certificate and then allow their documents to 
work as expected.

If you are doing this in a corporate setting, for your employees, you can 
easily "push" the certificate and the trust out to them...

Leonard

-----Original Message-----
From: Samuel Joseph [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Monday, June 22, 2009 11:18 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Unable to use Corporate Certificate

Leonard Rosenthol <lrosenth <at> adobe.com> writes:

> 
> Think about what you are asking...
> 
> You are asking for a way for make any PDF automatically trusted.  
> 
> Do you understand how silly a request that is when you think about it??
> 
> The whole reason for the warning message is to prevent documents from doing 
things that they should not
> UNLESS they are coming from a trusted person/corporation.  Certifying the 
document, with a trusted
> certificate, is one way to imbue trust to a document.  You can also place it 
in a trusted location (as defined
> by Acrobat/Reader preferences).
> 
> Not the answer you want, but hopefully that helps...
> 
> Leonard
> 


Hi Leonard,

Thanks for the info. The certificate we are trying to use is a valid and legal 
Corporate certificate signed by GlobalSign. Now since it is a trusted 
certificate, I assume it should not show that warning right?

Am I missing something here?

-Sam



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