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Addendum to Digital signatures for PDF documents

The Digital Signatures for PDF documents eBook has been one of our most popular downloads since it was written. Although many of the principles and concepts remain the same, iText itself has changed a great deal over the years.

The code snippets included in the eBook were accompanied by complete examples which we made available on our website. As these examples were originally written for iText 5, they have been completely updated and rewritten for the latest versions of iText 7. This meant significant changes in some cases, and some examples were no longer applicable to iText 7.

This addendum links to pages with updated Java and .NET (C#) examples for each chapter of the eBook, and the table below notes the name of the example and which chapter the code example corresponds to:

Example Name Description and Notes
Chapter 1 Understanding the concept of digital signatures
DigestDefault An example showing how to use the MessageDigest class
DigestBC An example demonstrating the use of the Bouncy Castle library
EncryptDecrypt An example of a simple class to encrypt and decrypt messages
   
Chapter 2 PDF and digital signatures
SignHelloWorld A simple example of adding a visible signature to a document
SignHelloWorldWithTempFile Signing a document using a temporary file to avoid OutOfMemoryExceptions with large PDFs
SignEmptyField Signing an empty text field with iText
CreateEmptyField Creating an empty text field with iText
CustomAppearance Creating a custom appearance for the signature by adding a grey background
SignatureAppearance Creating custom text, custom fonts and using right-to-left writing in a signature
SignatureAppearances Adding a custom image
SignatureMetadata Adding metadata to the signature dictionary
SignatureTypes Ordinary (approval) and Certification (author) signatures
SequentialSignatures Sequential signatures in PDFs
SignatureWorkflow An example where multiple signatures are required
LockFields Locking fields and documents after signing
   
Chapter 3 Certificate Authorities, certificate revocation and time stamping
SignWithCAcert Signing a document with a PKCS12 file from the CAcert Certificate Authority
GetCrlUrl Getting the Certificate Revocation List (CRL) URLs from a certificate chain
SignWithCRLDefaultImp Using the default CrlClient implementation
SignWithCRLOnline Getting the CRL online
SignWithCRLOffline Creating a CrlClient using an offline copy of the CRL
GetOcspUrl Fetching the Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) URL from a certificate
SignWithOCSP Signing a document with the OCSP
GetTsaUrl Extracting a Time Stamping Authority (TSA) URL from a certificate
SignWithTSA Signing a document with TSAClientBouncyCastle, an implementation of TSAClient
SignWithTSAEvent Adding an event to a TSAClientBouncyCastle instance
SignWithToken Signing a document with a USB token using Microsoft CryptoAPI (MSCAPI) - currently only available for Java
SignWithEstimatedSize Estimating the size in bytes of the signature content
   
Chapter 4 Creating signatures externally
SignWithPKCS11HSM Signing a document with PKCS#11 using a Hardware Security Module (HSM) - currently only available for Java
SignWithPKCS11USB Signing a document with PKCS#11 using a USB token - currently only available for Java
SignWithPKCS11SC Signing a document with PKCS#11 using a BEID - currently only available for Java
ClientServerSigning Signing a document on the client using a signature created on the server
ServerClientSigning Signing a document on the server using a signature created on the client
DeferredSigning Signing a document by creating a blank signature container, creating a signature appearance on the server and getting a hash to send to the client (deferred signing)
   
Chapter 5 Validation of signed documents
SignatureIntegrity Checking the validity of a signature
SignatureInfo Retrieving information from a signature
CertificateValidation Validating the certificates of a signature

 



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