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Removing a signature only



>I'm more than a little suspicious as to why you'd ask.  Would you care to explain what it is you're doing in more detail?

Absolutely!

I'm working with a conceptual work-flow system where indivual sumbissions are signed
unsing locally known PKIs (employee-certs).  These submissions are achieved.

After that the signature is removed and placed by a visual indication that the signature
and certificate was indeed checked by the work-flow app at a specific time.

Next the submission is put in a PDF container document which is signed by
the workflow engine and uses a PKI that is on legal-entity level only.
Such PKIs can be created with relative ease like SSL PKIs making trust
establishment easier.

Now the submission can (if so is required) be transmitted to a larger audience
through the workflow system.

By removing the local PKIs, you don't get warnings and such which effectively
*reduces* the trust in a document compared to an unsigned ditto :-|

Enclosed is such an example which though still has the client signature...

Anders

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Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Removing a signature only


I'm more than a little suspicious as to why you'd ask.  Would you care to explain what it is you're doing in more detail?

--Mark Storer
  Senior Software Engineer
  Cardiff Software

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> Anders Rundgren
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> Subject: [iText-questions] Removing a signature only
> 
> 
> I wonder if there is any easy way of removing a PDF signature 
> while keeping the rest of the document intact.
> 
> thanx in advance.
> Anders
> 
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