Guide

Everything ATick can do — signing, PAdES levels, appearance, certification, encryption, deferred / eSign signing and fast signing.

• Signing methods
  • 1. PFX / P12 / PEM file
  • 2. USB token / smart-card / HSM / Windows store (deferred flow)
  • Common options
  • Multi-signatory (sign an already-signed PDF)
• PAdES levels
  • PAdES vs. plain CMS, and /M
  • Custom TSA
  • Document timestamp on an existing signature
• Appearance
  • Date / time
  • The left side
  • The validity mark — ATick’s signature look
  • Distinguished name
  • Custom-text-only appearance
  • Positioning the appearance
  • Invisible signature
  • Other appearance options
  • Errors
• Certification & field locking
  • Certification (DocMDP)
  • Field locking (FieldMDP)
  • Pre-sign checks
• Encryption
  • Password-protect the output
  • Sign an encrypted input
  • Decrypt a PDF
  • Handling failures
• Indian eSign (CCA)
  • Step 1 — prepare + hash
  • Step 2 — build and sign the request XML
  • Step 3 — embed the ESP response
  • responseSigType
  • Other remote keys — HSM, token, card, Windows store
  • Simulating the ESP for testing
• Fast signing
  • Signing with LTV
  • Batch signing
  • Disabling the cache
  • Behaviour at a glance
  • Notes