Are you worried about the transport of the PDFs? If so, abandon email as your transport. SFTP would be better, or a comercial product such as Sharefile.com would do you better.
As for verifying the file had not changed... MD5Sum? --Matt Ross Ephrata School District ----- Original Message ----- From: Roger Wright [mailto:[email protected]] To: [email protected] Sent: Fri, 07 Jun 2013 11:33:29 -0800 Subject: [NTSysADM] Seucuring PDF Files > Our company sends out PDF reports to clients, primarily via email. > Questions have come up regarding the security of these reports once they > are in the hands of recipients. I know we can use passwords to prevent > editing but passwords create their own challenges due to typos, sharing, > former employees, etc. > > Fortunately, we're not dealing with regulatory compliance issues but are > concerned since reports contain verbiage and signatures that, if modified > and/or copied for nefarious reasons, my create legal issues. We're not so > concerned about preventing internal editing as much as preventing external > recipients from possibly editing said documents. > > Is there a practical method or system that would lock a file for editing > one the recipient has opened it without requiring a password? > > > Roger Wright > ___ > > "You can't believe most of the quotes you read on the internet." - Abraham > Lincoln > >
