Hey, this was the key point for me: PdfSignatureAppearance.VERISIGN_SIGNED
i had this previously: PdfSignatureAppearance.SELF_SIGNED and even tried PdfSignatureAppearance.WINCER_SIGNED but verisign was the only one that worked. In any case, what i placed here was the whole working(for me) code for a test with a source and destination file. What will probably be different for you is the way you sign the digest and the way you get the certificate array. I think these are the key code changes: ... PdfSignatureAppearance appearance = stamp.getSignatureAppearance(); ... // CcMethods.getChain() -> change to your method of getting your certificate array appearance.setCrypto(null, CcMethods.getChain(), null, PdfSignatureAppearance.VERISIGN_SIGNED); ... // new byte[128] is the "space"/"memory" reserved for the signed digest array appearance.setExternalDigest(new byte[128], null, "RSA"); appearance.preClose(); ... // in my case a 128 byte array generated from my signing method, hashDig is the document's digest (20 byte array) byte[] signedHash = CcMethods.sign(hashDig); PdfDictionary dic = new PdfDictionary(); PdfPKCS7 sig = appearance.getSigStandard().getSigner(); sig.setExternalDigest(signedHash, null, "RSA"); dic.put(PdfName.CONTENTS, new PdfString(sig.getEncodedPKCS1()).setHexWriting(true)); appearance.close(dic); Hope this helps. Regards, Pedro -- View this message in context: http://itext-general.2136553.n4.nabble.com/Another-invalid-signature-thread-tp3003710p3013808.html Sent from the iText - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Many questions posted to this list can (and will) be answered with a reference to the iText book: http://www.itextpdf.com/book/ Please check the keywords list before you ask for examples: http://itextpdf.com/themes/keywords.php