Security Features (Digital Signatures and Rights Management)

New document!: Digital Signatures and Rights Management in Acrobat and Adobe Reader combines the Security Admin Guide, Digital Signature Guide, Document Security Guide, several whitepapers and the one page quick keys.

Resource roadmap: The Security Feature Resource Roadmap provides links to docs, tutorials, videos, blogs, forums, and more.

Technical Whitepapers	Description
A Primer on Security	An overview of electronic document security.
Digital Signatures in PDF	An overview of PDF's support for digital signatures and trusted documents.
Digital Signatures in Acrobat	Acrobat's implementation of the PDF language's features.
Sample Signatures	Example signature appearances and how-tos for use with Adobe digital signatures.
One Page Keys
Signature validation	A troubleshooting key for validating signatures.
Signatures and PDF	A key to signatures and permissions at the PDF language level.
Signature creation	Language and application preference level details.
Signature byte range	An illustrated key to signature contents.
Revocation checking	A workflow overview diagram showing the order of precedence.
Security methods	A workflow overview and guide for setting encryption and permissions
Glossary	A glossary of acronyms and security terms pertaining to security features.

Technical Guides	7.x	8.x	9.x	Description
Customization Wizard				Tuning the installer prior to distributing it across your organization.
Security Admin Guide	N/A			Registry level configuration, deployment, runtime and feature security details.
Document Security Guide	N/A			Choosing and using security methods.
Digital Signature Guide	N/A			Authoring documents for signing, signing, validation signatures, etc.
Settings Import/Export				Importing-exporting security settings with the new 9.x feature and FDF.
Acrobat Security guide		N/A	N/A	Digital signatures & document security for Acrobat. Try the 9.x guide first.
Reader Security guide		N/A	N/A	Digital signatures & document security for Reader. Try the 9.x guide first.
Developer Docs
Signature Appearances				Programattically creating signature appearances.
Developing MSCAPI CSPs				Creating a Windows MSCAPI cryptographic service provider.
Software Dev Kit				Links to the SDK, the PDF API Reference, and other material
JavaScript Scripting Guide				Examples for using the JS APIs. A companion to the JS Reference.
JavaScript Scripting Ref.				A JS API reference. A companion to the JS Scripting Guide.
PDF Reference (Spec)				The open source PDF reference that describes the PDF language.
Signature Build Dictionary	N/A			Acrobat's signature-related addendum to the PDF Reference.
FDF Specification				A description of the data exchange format used for FDF files.

Runtime Security

Technical Whitepapers	Description
Enhanced Security	Limit risky features like cross domain access and scripting to specifically trusted locations.
Enhanced Security Quick Key	A one page guide to enhanced security configuration.
Cross Domain Security	Control the client's cross domain access at the server level.
Flash Security in Acrobat	Describes the security model when Flash runs inside a PDF document.
Managing JS Execution	Describes how the various JS controls interact.