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Using the Ascertia Document Archive Web-Portal
The Security Problem
When turning from paper based communication to electronic documents organisations have
two security concerns.
Firstly they need to protect their brand and show...
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www.
ascertia.
com Page 1
Using the Ascertia Document Archive Web-Portal
The Security Problem
When turning from paper based communication to electronic documents organisations have
two security concerns.
Firstly they need to protect their brand and show that the document is
original and unchanged since it was released by the organisation.
Secondly they need to make
it easy for the recipient to have access to this information without Internet privacy concerns.
Signing the email body is not effective when it comes to delivering such information, particularly
because many popular web-mail applications do not support digital signatures.
However
signed attachments, especially PDF and PDF/A documents are very good for this purpose.
Nevertheless when attached to an email the contents can still be read by any interceptor even
though the data cannot be changed without invalidating the corporate signature.
Other problems include tracking whether the document has been received or even read.
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