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Touqeer9045
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February 26, 2020
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Security Certificates..

  • February 26, 2020
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Hi,

 

I wanted to know how is it that when a security certificate is added to a PDF it is easily removed by some websites online.

Does that not defeat the purpose of adding security certificates to a PDF.

 

Thanks..

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Test Screen Name
Legend
February 26, 2020

Certificates are not security. They don’t prevent tampering, or faking. Their job is to detect tampering. 

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Touqeer9045Author
Participant
February 26, 2020

@Test_Screen_Name,

 

Thanks for the reply, I'm aware of the implementation of security certificates to detect document tampering, my question being the ease and ability of some sites to remove the certificates that allow tampering detection feature.

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Test Screen Name
Legend
February 27, 2020

If a site removes the certificate, which is a trivial thing to do, then tampering is VERY evident. Because there is no longer any certificate...

Bernd Alheit
Community Expert
Bernd AlheitCommunity Expert
Community Expert
February 26, 2020

You mean the certificate security?

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Touqeer9045Author
Participant
February 26, 2020

@Bernd_Alheit,

 

Yes I'm talking about Certificate Security that is added to disallow changes to documents.

Bernd Alheit
Community Expert
Bernd AlheitCommunity Expert
Community Expert
February 26, 2020

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