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Attacks on PDF certification, and what you can do about them

Wed - 06/23/2021
In May 2021, a group of researchers at the Ruhr University Bochum (RUB) published an IEEE symposium paper on problems with certification signatures in PDF. The authors’ findings are summarized on the PDF Insecurity website. Since iText’s products are often used as part of digital signing workflows (including to create certification signatures), we felt compelled to comment. In this blog post, we’ll take you through some background on these new attacks, and explain what you can do about them.
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Saving time and resources by optimizing your PDFs

Fri - 06/18/2021
With the level of digitalization in document workflows taking a steep rise over the last year, an increasing number of companies are seeking a performant and automated solution for optimizing PDFs in high volumes. In this blog we are going to take a look at this challenge and provide a programmatical solution in Java and C# (.NET), and more importantly how it can save you time and resources.
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Announcing iText DITO 2.0

Announcing iText DITO 2.0: raising the bar for data-driven, template-based PDF generation

Mon - 03/29/2021
With the upcoming release of iText DITO 2.0, we’ll be adding a brand-new component to the iText DITO template-based PDF generator. The iText DITO Manager brings a workspace control room experience and a central repository for all your templates, data collections and resources. With the inclusion of promotion paths, versioning and user management, it’s a powerful addition to the iText DITO framework.
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Digitally sign a PDF using AWS KMS and iText

Fri - 01/29/2021
Securing and automating digital document workflows is increasingly important in the modern business world. A crucial part of creating secure digital signatures is generating public and private keys for signing, and cloud providers such as Amazon, Google, and Microsoft now offer highly-secure cryptographic key management services. Since 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 and the AWS KMS APIs to generate a digital signature and add it to a PDF document.
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