Adobe Acrobat Sign Integration for Remote Digital Signatures
Cloud Signatures Simplified with Acrobat Sign and SSL.com
SSL.com’s Trust Service Provider (TSP) partnership with Adobe and the Cloud Signature Consortium means that businesses, organizations, and individuals can easily integrate SSL.com document signing certificates into their digital document signing workflows with Acrobat Sign. Acrobat Sign is a cloud-based digital signature service offering web and mobile app access, APIs, and turnkey integration with many Adobe and third-party applications and services.
Trusted, Legal, and Compliant Digital Signatures
Digital signatures use public key infrastructure (PKI)-based digital certificates that bind the validated identity of a company, organization, or individual to a unique cryptographic key pair. When an electronic document such as a PDF is digitally signed, a cryptographic hash of the document’s content and the identity of the signatory are bound together to form a unique digital fingerprint. PKI-based digital certificates are trusted, legal, and compliant worldwide, and offer significant benefits over ink signatures and other types of simple electronic signatures, including:
Authenticity: Digital signatures offer cryptographic proof that a trusted third party has verified the signatory's identity.
Integrity: Each digital signature includes a unique cryptographic hash, or "fingerprint" of a document. If one word in a signed document is changed, its signature will become invalid.
Non-Repudiation: Because the authenticity and integrity of digitally signed documents can be cryptographically verified, a signatory cannot plausibly deny that they signed a document.
PKI-based digital signatures are legal and enforceable under the United States Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce (ESIGN) act and the European Union’s Electronic Identification and Trust Services (eIDAS) regulation, as well as the laws of many other nations worldwide. They are recognized as advanced electronic signatures by eIDAS, giving them greater legal weight than simple electronic signatures that are not based on digital certificates.
Acrobat Sign-integrated digital signatures from SSL.com also offer:
Universal Trust and Compatibility: As a globally trusted certificate authority (CA), Acrobat Sign and Cloud Signature Consortium Trust Service Provider (TSP), and member of the Adobe Approved Trust List (AATL), SSL.com's document signing certificates are trusted worldwide by major software vendors like Adobe and Microsoft.
Convenience and Seamless Integration: Private signing keys are safely and securely stored in the cloud with SSL.com's eSigner cloud PKI service. All PKI operations are handled by SSL.com's cloud servers and fully integrated with Acrobat Sign. There's no need for USB tokens, HSMs, or full-time expert staff.
Timestamping and Long-term Validation (LTV): Acrobat Sign signatures from SSL.com include trusted timestamping and long-term validation. Digitally signed documents include cryptographic proof of the time of signing, and digital signatures will not expire when a document signing certificate expires or needs to be revoked.
