[probably offtopic] e-sign solutions
Hi all. I have a short-term need for an e-signing facility. There are a few free ones (digisigner.com) but I'm not familiar with them, and I'm not prepared to pay Adobe $40/mo for justa doc or two. Any recommendations? Anything to avoid? Thanks! Evan Leibovitch, Toronto Canada @evanleibovitch / @el56
On Mon, Sep 20, 2021 at 11:53 AM Evan Leibovitch via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
Hi all.
I have a short-term need for an e-signing facility.
There are a few free ones (digisigner.com) but I'm not familiar with them, and I'm not prepared to pay Adobe $40/mo for justa doc or two.
Any recommendations? Anything to avoid? Thanks!
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I've used DocHub ( https://dochub.com/ ) for signing PDFs and it's been fine. -jason
On 2021-09-20 11:57 a.m., Jason Shaw via talk wrote:
I've used DocHub ( https://dochub.com/ <https://dochub.com/> ) for signing PDFs and it's been fine.
I just tried it, and it seems the free version doesn't electronically sign the document at all. It's neither encrypted nor signed, so anyone could modify it. I wish there were cheaper ways of getting X.509 certificates that linked back to a root cert in Adobe Reader. A decade back, I was using the P12 certificate issued by the ARRL (yes, I'm a radio nerd) to cryptographically sign PDFs. That certificate wasn't much better than self-signing: people could tell the document hadn't been modified, but they couldn't verify that I was who I said I was. They could if they installed the ARRL's certificate, but no-one did that. Heck, with a P12 certificate, my Brother AIO can generate signed and encrypted PDF scans ... chers, Stewart
Hi all, On Mon, 20 Sept 2021 at 19:46, Stewart C. Russell via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
On 2021-09-20 11:57 a.m., Jason Shaw via talk wrote:
I've used DocHub ( https://dochub.com/ <https://dochub.com/> ) for signing PDFs and it's been fine.
I just tried it, and it seems the free version doesn't electronically sign the document at all. It's neither encrypted nor signed, so anyone could modify it.
The need is to send the doc to a small number of trusted emails, have them sign and return the signed doc within 12 hours or so at which point it's locked and archived. Unless there are MITM attacks or the emails aren't as secure as we think, I think we should be OK, especially since I can confirm with the signatories that they did indeed sign. In any case, DocHub's free plan wasn't enough for my needs, I ended up trying signrequest.com (which is being acquired by box.com), hosted in the EU, so it's GDPR compliant FWIW. So far it's seemed to work OK. - Evan
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