BEWARE - Certified by Adobe Sign Only Prevents Editing in Acrobat, Allows Export to Other Format

Question

I signed a document using the built-in Adobe Sign feature and assumed my document was secure when I returned the executed agreement to its originator. I was wrong ... Even though the document can no longer be edited in Acrobat, the orignator exported the document to MS Word including the full electronic signature.

How is this even possible? Not very secure in my opinion. If the file can't be edited, why can it be exported?

The originator then MODIFIED the verbiage of the agreement and expected my signature to still be valid.

And I know this won't hold up legally, but come on. Why do I even have to fight this fight?

Amal. · Answer

Hi @Stacey29286559x061

Hope you are doing well and sorry to hear that.

Is it a electronic signature (Fill and Sign > Sign yourself) or a certificate based digital signature, that you used on the document?

Digital Signatures are a type of Electronic Signature that uses a certificate-based Digital ID, obtained either from a cloud-based trust service provider or from the signer's local system.

A digital signature, like a conventional handwritten signature, identifies the person signing a document. Unlike a handwritten signature, a certificate-based signature is difficult to forge because it contains encrypted information that is unique to the signer. It can be easily verified and informs recipients whether the document was modified after the signer initially signed the document.

For more info. please check the help page https://helpx.adobe.com/sign/using/digital-signatures.html

Hope it will help

Regards

Amal

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