Leonard, Leonard Rosenthol-3 wrote > A TimeStampSignature is a new type of signature (as defined in PAdES Part > 4 or ISO 32000-2), which is why Acrobat shows it as a separate signature > with a unique type. It's not the same as a standard signature with an > embedded timestamp.
Yes, it is the right thing for the Adobe Reader to show the document time stamps as separate entries on the signature panel. Unfortunately in that entry the time stamp very often merely is called a signature (at least in the German localization). This automatically leads to confusion as can be observed in Raffaele's message here (and he is a person who by profession has to deal with signatures and time stamps which is a background most Reader users don't have). > TimeStamp Sigs, as part of PAdES, are valid/legal in the EU so not sure > about your "legal non-go". On the one hand PAdES is a technical specification whose wording might very well deviate from the wording of laws and agencies who on the other hand define legal wordings. I don't know the exact wording of the applicable EU directives, though. On the other hand the German Adobe Reader localization should take into account German (and Austrian and Swiss) legal wordings, too, and at least the German signature act and especially its interpretation by the responsible federal agency strictly distinguishes between time stamps and signatures. Regards, Michael PS: I don't know the Italian situation, maybe it considers time stamps as special signatures, maybe not. But even in the former case, it would be advantageous to use a wording which better prevents misunderstandings as observed in this thread. -- View this message in context: http://itext-general.2136553.n4.nabble.com/Insert-TimeStamping-with-external-digest-tp4344945p4347559.html Sent from the iText - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions iText(R) is a registered trademark of 1T3XT BVBA. 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
