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Using Trusted Notary Services to Avoid Trust Issues
Traditionally public notaries have provided an important trust service in witnessing the
execution of legal and commercial documents.
They have verified the identity of the...
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www.
ascertia.
com Page 2
Using Trusted Notary Services to Avoid Trust Issues
Traditionally public notaries have provided an important trust service in witnessing the
execution of legal and commercial documents.
They have verified the identity of the parties,
witnessed the signatures and vouch for their later authenticity.
As the business world moves on-line to save substantial costs and to “go green” the same
trust services are still required.
Similar trust services can now be offered for electronic
documents using online trusted notary services that use advanced long-term digital signatures
also called digital notary seals.
This paper describes how online trusted notary services can easily be offered for PDF
documents.
PDF is the most common business document format; however other document
formats could be supported by using the same approach within other desktop products.
The Problem
When end-users receive signed PDF documents there is no certainty that they can correctly
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