On 1/31/19 7:38 AM, hy...@lactose.homelinux.net wrote:
Tom Williams writes:
why would anyone want to digitally sign a document?
The two most obvious answers are:
(*) confirm authorship
(*) verify integrity of contents
I'm sure there are plenty of other reasons as well.
Thanks for the
On 1/31/19 7:50 AM, James Knott wrote:
On 01/31/2019 10:33 AM, Tom Williams wrote:
Hi! I recently learned LibreOffice 6 supports PGP signed documents.
My question: why would anyone want to digitally sign a document?
When you take out a loan, etc., don't you sign the document? There are
many
On 01/31/2019 11:50 AM, Tom Williams wrote:
> The reason I asked is, I've never considered the need to digitally
> sign a document I created or modified in LibreOffice.
At least one bank I'm aware of allows digital signing of documents. So,
you might download a form to open an account, take out
On 01/31/2019 11:54 AM, Tom Williams wrote:
> Now, this is interesting. So, the digital signing you describe would
> generate a digital version of my signature? I have experience with
> digitally signing a document, using a third party service, like
> DocuSign. In those cases, a "signature"
Hi! I recently learned LibreOffice 6 supports PGP signed documents. My
question: why would anyone want to digitally sign a document?
Peace...
"The Other" Tom
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And when I leave, I don't know what I'm leaving behind.../
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To
Tom Williams writes:
>why would anyone want to digitally sign a document?
The two most obvious answers are:
(*) confirm authorship
(*) verify integrity of contents
I'm sure there are plenty of other reasons as well.
--hymie! http://lactose.homelinux.net/~hymie
On 01/31/2019 10:33 AM, Tom Williams wrote:
> Hi! I recently learned LibreOffice 6 supports PGP signed documents.
> My question: why would anyone want to digitally sign a document?
When you take out a loan, etc., don't you sign the document? There are
many times you sign things. This is just
QWhat's interesting about this is you can use a a smartcard to sign your
documents. Libreoffice supports standard PIV smart cards (at least under
Linux). If you have everything configured right, you can use an x509 that
is resident on the smart card to sign the document. This can provide much
