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I’m curious: what good would automating signing a PDF through a utility do? The whole purpose of a signature is that a person signed and agreed to something. T
by blknight 1y ago
I’m curious: what good would automating signing a PDF through a utility do?
The whole purpose of a signature is that a person signed and agreed to something. That cannot be done automatically.
- withinboredom 1y agoCEOs often need to sign changes to employment terms or options/vesting terms and have hundreds if not thousands of employees. They don't have the time to go through and sign all of those contracts. Its no different than the analog ages where a secretary would go through and stamp all the contracts with the CEOs signature.
- nashashmi 1y agoThose don’t need certified signatures. They just need pdf stamps.
- withinboredom 1y agoIt depends on jurisdiction
- cyanydeez 1y agoPdf stamps have zero security. Signing can be cryptographic.
- lxgr 1y agoJust because that's what many people still do doesn't make it sane.
- echoangle 1y agoWhy wouldn’t a company sign documents they create automatically? This is about a cryptographic signature that lets the user verify authorship, not a visual signature in the PDF, right? So it would still be useful to be able to verify that a bank statement is really from my bank, even if it was generated without human interaction.
- arethuza 1y agoAlso allowing you to detect whether any changes have been made since the signature was applied.
- j1elo 1y agoMy bank can issue a signed certificate for any of you account movements if you need to provide proof of them. They come signed both digitally and handwritten by the branch's director. But you wouldn't expect the director to be there sitting and signing all certificate requests that arrive, right?
- pfortuny 1y agoImagine you need to sign 25 pdf documents. You read them on the screen and then batch-sign them (instead of signing them with the vewing software). This is just an example.