The PDF industry is preparing for the quantum era by adopting post-quantum cryptography (PQC) standards. Following key developments at PDF Days 2025, vendors are integrating quantum-resistant digital signatures to ensure long-term trust and security in PDF documents.
MobiPDF’s new version builds on its commitment to users by delivering features that address real-world challenges, such as custom watermarking, built-in digital signatures, and an AI-powered document scanner.
Superace launches its advanced solution for reliable and easy digital signatures to empower users with an efficient and reliable online signing experience.
Digital signatures have become widely accepted and are accepted as valid and legally binding in many industries from government, healthcare, manufacturing, transportation, financial services, and others. Learn more about how secure they are and how to apply them using FineReader PDF 15.
iText is used by many businesses and signing services to integrate secure digital signatures into PDFs. This step-by-step article shows developers how to use iText 7 and the AWS KMS APIs to generate a digital signature and add it to a PDF document.
The PDF Shadow Attacks are a new class of security vulnerabilities for PDF. In case you need a tldr; then rest assured that iText is immune to the published attacks. However, we also found that iText 7 could be utilized to detect potentially malicious documents, resulting in this series of posts.
Are your PDF documents secure, and what should you do to ensure the data they contain is secure? Keeping that data secure is not only a best practice, but is often required by data privacy laws. In this blog and accompanying webinar: “PDF Security: Encryption and Digital Signatures”, we offer you the top three ways to improve your PDF document security.
Swisscom Trust Services is the leading trust service provider in Europe, and uses iText 7 to integrate electronic signatures into legally valid and timestamped documents.
What can one do with the PDF format, and where is it going? PDF is continuously evolving, and its current advantages and flexibility may surprise you.
On February 25, 2019, researchers from Ruhr University Bochum and Hackmanit GmbH published pdf-insecurity.org, a detailed explanation of several vulnerabilities they had identified in PDF viewers and online validation services relevant to signature validation in digitally-signed PDF documents. The vulnerabilities are pertinent only to such digitally-signed documents, and not to PDF in general. These vulnerabilities identified change … Read more
