ETSI vs Adobe PadES B-B Level conformance

[Normand_Williams]

I am working on implementing PAdES signature generation and validation and i am testing using the Reader DC and also the ETSI online conformance checker tool.

In one of my tests i add the adbe-revocationInfoArchival attribute to the signature content and Reader DC happily validates the file and reports that it is PAdES B-B Level but the ETSI online checker reports an error. I verified with ETSI to inquire if they were interpreting the specification correctly and they directed me to ETSI EN 319 142 V1.1.1 (2016-04) page 21 item i) which says that whatever is mentioned in ISO 32000-1 12.8.3.3 shall not be used (and that includes the adbe-revocationInfoArchival attribute).

So is this a bug from Adobe or are they interpreting the spec differently? Please help me  understand this mystery.

Thank you, Normand

[Stuck Mojo]

Normand, I just sumbled over the same issue. How did you dealt with it?

[Normand_Williams]

Unfortunately, I have never received an answer from Adobe. So we decided to go with ETSI's answer and not to include the adbe-revocationInfoArchival attribute in any PAdES. Sorry for the late reply.

[md555]

adbe-revocationInfoArchival should not be present in PAdES. Moreover, the current implementation in Adobe is useless, since the timestamp in revocation info is older than signature timestamp and thus not usable for validation.