Correct.

Leonard

On Sep 9, 2008, at 1:06 PM, Paulo Soares wrote:

> It won't work. You may put as many signers as you want in the PKCS7  
> but the PDF specification only accepts a single signer.
>
> Paulo
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
>> Behalf Of drivexcite
>> Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2008 3:52 PM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: [iText-questions] PDF Digital Signature:
>> precalculated signature and hash.
>>
>>
>> Please, let us know your results!
>> Thanks.
>>
>>
>> Andreas Kuehne-2 wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi !
>>>
>>> What's the problem with co-signing ?
>>> PKCS7 supports it from the beginning ( guess back in the
>> 90ies ). You can
>>> add signers to the signature as you like. You can add new
>> signers to a
>>> given signature without breaking the document ( if the
>> signature space
>>> within the PDF is big enough, because it grows with every
>> new signer ).
>>>
>>> I'm not sure whether Acrobat supprts co-signing, but I'll
>> give it a try ..
>>>
>>> Greetings
>>>
>>> Andreas
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----
>>> From: Leonard Rosenthol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>> To: Post all your questions about iText here
>>> <[email protected]>
>>> Sent: Friday, September 5, 2008 7:34:57 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [iText-questions] PDF Digital Signature: precalculated
>>> signature and hash.
>>>
>>> PDF signatures do not work the way you wish.
>>>
>>> The concept of "parallel signatures" that you describe is one that
>>> various standards bodies are currently investigating for
>> the future of
>>> PDF.
>>>
>>> Leonard
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sep 5, 2008, at 1:27 PM, drivexcite wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi everyone,
>>>>
>>>> I have a static PDF document that needs to be signed by different
>>>> users; the
>>>> document cannot be modified until all the user's signatures are
>>>> collected.
>>>>
>>>> Unfortunately, all the examples of multiple signatures I've seen so
>>>> far,
>>>> somehow change the state of the source document, and as a result,
>>>> calculating the hash multiple times using
>>>> PDfSignatureAppearance.getRangeStream() does not produce the same
>>>> value.
>>>> Apparently, the first signature protects the original document, the
>>>> second
>>>> signature protects the first signed version, and so on.
>>>>
>>>> I want all signatures protects the original document.
>>>>
>>>> So my questions are:
>>>>    1.- It is possible to calculate a digital signature on
>> a PDF document
>>>> without modifying it?  What stream of bytes can I use to
>> obtain this
>>>> result?
>>>> (I'm sure getRangeStream() is not the answer)
>>>>    2.- In the example "How to sign with an external
>> signature and a
>>>> standard
>>>> filter" I noticed the hash is calculated using
>> getRangeStream(), BUT
>>>> the
>>>> signature is calculated using the hash! Is that right? I'm not a
>>>> security
>>>> expert but I think the signature should be calculated using the
>>>> source data,
>>>> not the hash.
>>>>    3.- Once the hashes and signatures has been calculated over the
>>>> source
>>>> data, how can I create a signed PDF version?
>>>>
>>>> I found a similar
>>>>
>> http://www.nabble.com/sign-a-pdf-document-using-external-hash-
>> and-signature-tt8747172.html#a8747172
>>>> question  on the forum, but it remains unanswered.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>> Tonatihu Díaz.
>>>> --
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>> ignature-and-hash.-tp19336006p19336006.html
>>>> Sent from the iText - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
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