Guide

Everything ATick can do — signing back-ends, PAdES levels, appearance, certification, encryption, Indian eSign and fast signing.

• Signing methods
  • 1. PFX / P12 / PEM file
  • 2. USB token / smart-card / HSM (PKCS#11)
  • 3. Windows certificate store
  • Common options
  • Multi-signatory (sign an already-signed PDF)
• PAdES levels
  • PAdES vs. plain CMS, and /M
  • Document timestamp on an existing signature
• Appearance
  • Date / time format
  • The left side
  • The validity mark — ATick’s signature look
  • Distinguished name
  • Custom-text-only appearance
  • Invisible signature
  • Other Style options
• Certification & field locking
  • Certification (DocMDP)
  • Field locking (FieldMDP)
  • Pre-sign checks
• Encryption & metadata
  • Password-protect the output
  • Sign an encrypted input
  • Decrypt a PDF
  • Set document metadata
• Indian eSign (CCA)
  • Step 1 — prepare + hash
  • Step 2 — sign the request XML with managex-xml-sdk
  • Step 3 — embed the ESP response
  • responseSigType
  • Simulating the ESP for testing
  • Command line
• Fast signing
  • Notes