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People typically do not share documents, such as signed contracts, by providing an image of their entire filesystem containing the signed file.
by GranPC 3y ago
People typically do not share documents, such as signed contracts, by providing an image of their entire filesystem containing the signed file.
- est31 3y agoThey also don't want to share two files, one for the file, one for the signature. Ideally, it's integrated, which means there needs to be some management. And ideally, it's also applied to the data before it's compressed, so that you can apply advanced compression and deduplication to archived documents like zopfli for example.
- GranPC 3y agoRight, that much makes sense. The point is that the signed file being part of a larger container does not immediately make the signature of the signed file, as a whole, useless.
- leni536 3y agoIsn't docx literally a zip file?
- est31 3y agoYes, and with zopfli you could theoretically reduce the size, but signatures are on the whole file, and will be destroyed.