Glossary Of Security Terms - Adobe 22002486 User Manual

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Glossary of Security Terms

Table 5 Security Terms
.apf
.cer
.p12
.p7b
.p7c
.pfx
Adobe Profile Files
ALCRMS
approval signature
ASPKI
CA
CDS
CDS digital ID
CDS digital ID certificate
certificate authority (CA)
certificates
certification signature
certified document
Certified Document Services
(CDS)
certify or certifying
CRL
See Adobe Profile Files.
Certificate format: A Microsoft format for digital IDs often stored in the Windows Certificate Store. These
IDs can be used by Windows programs as well as the Acrobat product family.
See PKCS#12.
See PKCS#7.
See PKCS#7.
See PKCS#12.
Adobe's legacy certificate format not used after Acrobat 5. The certificates are stored in .apf files. This
format is not supported as of version 9.0.
Adobe LiveCycle Rights Management Server.
A signature used to indicate approval of, or consent on, the document terms.
Acrobat's Public Key Infrastructure Library (ASPKI) is a standalone PKI toolkit written in C++ with the
intention of being completely portable and usable in different applications, including but not limited to,
Acrobat and GUI-less servers. ASPKI supports RFC 3280 and NIST compliant chain building and path
validation, including support for cross certificates and multiple chains; multiple revocation protocols like
CRL (RFC3280) and OCSP (RFC2560); time stamping (RFC3161); and embedded revocation information
along with a signature to achieve signature archival.
See certificate authority.
See Certified Document Services.
A digital ID issued by a certified document services provider.
See CDS digital ID.
An entity that issues trusted roots.
That part of a digital ID that contains the public key. Certificates are shared among participants of
signature and certificate security workflows in order to verify participant identities.
A digital signature applied using an individual digital ID or organizational digital ID for the purpose of
establishing the authenticity of a document and the integrity of a document's content, including its
appearance and business logic.
A document to which a certification signature has been applied.
A joint solution offered by Adobe and its security partners that can help recipients trust a PDF
document. CDS can help provide assurance of the author's identity while also showing that the PDF
document has not been modified. CDS is the only security solution that provides automatic validation of
these attributes in Adobe Reader or Acrobat without also requiring additional software or configuration
changes by the recipients.
The act of applying a certification signature to a document using the Acrobat "Certify" feature. Certifying
helps establish document authenticity as well as the integrity of its content, including its appearance
and business logic.
See Certificate Revocation List.
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