PDF Forms, JavaScript / FormCalc and Security

[Former Community Member]

Hello!

A client  wants to use PDF forms (around 2000  forms) in their company, most of  them using JavaScript or FormCalc scripts, but today their employees  (thousands) are not  allowed to activate JavaScript in their computers.  Obviously this will  have to be changed.

They say their security people are afraid this could open security breaches...

Please, is there a way this can be solved using LC Digital Signatures?  Or any other solution?

Thank you very much for any ideas!

Marcos

[Former Community Member · Accepted solution]

Marcos

Enabling or  disabling JavaScript is a "global" (it's either on for all documents or  off for all documents) setting at the application (Reader or Acrobat)  level. 

Signing a document with a digital signature will have no  affect on this setting.  If a PDF is "certified", (using a CDS credential issued by an Adobe CDS partner, or with a credential from a Certificate Authority listed on the Adobe Approved Trust List) then a high level of trust is established that the author of the document has not used any malicious JavaScript in the PDF.

You establish a high level of trust with a certified PDF, but it cannot prevent users from accessing PDF documents from other untrusted locations.

More info...

http://www.adobe.com/security/partners_cds.html

http://www.adobe.com/security/digsig/certifieddocs.html

http://www.adobe.com/security/approved-trust-list.html

Regards

Steve