How can I encrypt dynamically generated PDF attachments with a password in an Adobe Campaign workflow?

[WarisaraYi]

I'm working on an Adobe Campaign workflow that generates personalized PDF attachments for each recipient based on customer data. Before attaching these PDFs to the emails, I need to encrypt them with a password to ensure security.

Since Adobe Campaign doesn’t seem to have built-in PDF encryption capabilities, what are the best practices or solutions for applying password protection to these dynamic PDFs before sending them via email? Are there any external tools or integrations that work well with Adobe Campaign for this purpose, or is there a recommended workflow for achieving this?

Any advice or examples would be greatly appreciated!

[ccg1706 · Accepted solution]

Hi @WarisaraYi ,

For PDF generation and encryption you can:

- Use external tools like Adobe Acrobat API, iText or PDFBox to dynamically generate and encrypt PDFS

- Create a workflow that exports customer data, afterwards encrypts the PDFs using and external server with custom scripts.

- Use APIs to integrate Adobe Campaign with these external services and return encrypted PDFs for email attachments.

Hope this helps you.

Regards, 

Celia

[WarisaraYi]

Hi, thank you for the answer.

I'm very new to Adobe Campaign and this concept is really unfamiliar to me.

Do you have any resource that you can share about these process?

[Pradeep_Kumar_Srivastav]

Hi @WarisaraYi ,

You can check out this link for more details: https://experienceleaguecommunities.adobe.com/t5/adobe-campaign-classic-questions/encrypting-pdf-whi.... Attaching and encrypting PDFs in ACC is not a straightforward process. One option is to use third-party API calls for encryption and then attach the encrypted PDF.

Personally, I find creating such API calls complex and challenging from a security standpoint. In a similar situation, we hosted all PDFs (whether plain or encrypted) in an S3 bucket and simply attached the links to the PDFs dynamically during the email sends.

Feel free to refer to the discussion in the link for more insights.