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Yeah I understand encryption isn’t an sig, just seemed like your main complaint (or second biggest complaint) was the pain in downloading them from many differe

Yeah I understand encryption isn’t an sig, just seemed like your main complaint (or second biggest complaint) was the pain in downloading them from many different places. Encrypted PDFs are one way to allow them to be emailed to you in a decently secure fashion. Sure nothing is 100% but don’t let perfect be the enemy of good. As far as signatures in PDFs goes, when have you ever needed them? What’s the real world scenario? I think most recipients would be incapable of validating the signature properly (including verifying ownership of the public key corresponding to the private key that signed it). Ie same flaws of any Cert based system.

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The signature would be needed when the bank says "you have no money" even though I should have, due to their ancient COBOL systems breaking, fraud, whatever. How would I prove to a court that I do have money if I only have easily forge-able unsigned PDFs? Now before you say this is unlikely, ask yourself this: Would you lend thousands of dollars to a regular person without ANY signed document from them which says they owe you the money? No, right? Then why would I do that with a bank? If they get that much money from me they ought to at least give me a kind-of unforgeable document which says the money is mine.