On 06/04/2010, at 11:40 PM, steve harley wrote: > (i paste my signature onto PDFs and other electronic documents fairly often)
So do I. However, I recognise the folly of this (and I guess you do as well). My hope is that when enough people recognise this folly we will move to something more secure (like PKI). > the idea, though, that it's any less "safe" than sending a piece of paper > with your signature is mistaken; anyone who can see your signature can easily > reproduce it I'm not so sure about that. It's probably easy enough to reproduce it to get past someone doing a quick check, but surely there are handwriting experts who could tell the difference if required. >> At least you'd want to set some permissions on the PDF, right? > > that would be useless, since there is no iway to truly secure a PDF document It depends what you mean by secure? Secure against screenshots of content or secure against tampering or fraud. PKI can do a lot to protect against the latter two. Cheers, Ashley. PS I am not a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) expert but I know there are problems with it as well ... -- Ashley Aitken Perth, Western Australia mrhatken at mac dot com Skype Name: MrHatken (GMT + 8 Hours!) _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
