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  • Encryption & metadata
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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

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