Is any one using a digital signature with third party verification? Are there any I could get going and be able to sign a pdf in a few minutes?
I still sign, crimp and do a red pencil rub over the crimp
Then I make a color scan to pdf and send that out and keep the original in my file folder.
Many times a color scan will show the crimp much the same as a watermark shows up on the original.
I have always provided hard copies and sent all pdf's labeled preliminary, but a lot of folks are complaining that this takes to long to get the hard copies. I dont have a scanner at my office.
We use rightsignature.com . It's alright I suppose. Don't know the cost and signatures are black. Blue would be better, but we've had no complaints from the clients.
Adam, post: 330376, member: 8900 wrote: Is any one using a digital signature with third party verification? Are there any I could get going and be able to sign a pdf in a few minutes?
Adobe's Reader (free) on an Android phone or tablet can do signatures. It's located under the comment tools and the icon looks like a pen. The signature can be manipulated for size, line weight, color etc., but once the file is closed the signature becomes an un-editable part of the pdf. To the end user the signature will be no more editable than if they scanned it in from your paper copy.
Setting up third party verification would involve considerable more time and effort.
We use CoSign. I also add a statement indicating the document was signed electronically. It is incredibly easy to strip off the signature.
I questioned our board on Digital Signatures and they require that we use third party verification for electronic doc's, or print sign and scan.
Adam, post: 330376, member: 8900 wrote: Is any one using a digital signature with third party verification? Are there any I could get going and be able to sign a pdf in a few minutes?
You will need a reliable pdf creator as well as a third party Certificate Authority (CA). in the past some of the pdf creating/scanning/conversion software did not properly protect the files from alteration by others. The following is from a 2008 article I have mentioned here before.
[INDENT]A few of these Certificate Authorities are Verisign ( http://www.verisign.com/ ), Entrust ( http://www.entrust.com/ ),
IdenTrust ( http://www.identrust.com/ ) and GlobalSign ( http://www.globalsign.com/ ) with each providing multiple levels
of ID security. An example of the first step up is a Verisign ÛÏClass 1Digital IDÛ which currently costs $19.95 per year
and will work with email, PDF creators, word processing, spreadsheet and CAD applications. However, the certificate
includes a statement ÛÏPersona Not ValidatedÛ indicating a lack of identity verification. The CA has verified only a
working email address and a credit card valid for online purchases. A higher level of identity verification from Verisign
is an ÛÏExternal Certification Authority (ECA)Û certificate. This certificate, which currently costs $125 per year, has
similar capabilities to the Class 1 Digital ID but requires ÛÏRobust In-Person Identity and Citizenship Verification.Û[/INDENT]
Verisign is now Symantec and likely the best known of the Certificate Authorities the current personal ID link is http://www.symantec.com/digital-id/ . I used this CA for a number of years on both personal email and teaching securing CAD (MicroStation) files in the classroom. All student submissions were graded using a reference file secured with the digital ID. The students were also shown how to verify the grading file was not altered and also validate the ID online with Verisign/Symantic. Their current cost is $25 per year and I am sure the others are similar.
Thanks for the sites.
