[Poppler-bugs] [Bug 16770] support for digital signatures

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Wed Oct 14 13:43:29 PDT 2015


https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16770

--- Comment #82 from Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> ---
(In reply to Adrian Johnson from comment #80)
> (In reply to Albert Astals Cid from comment #70)
> > For the pdfsigverify it seems we kind of agreeed on the compromise to call
> > it pdfsig that only does verification right now but in the future may
> > suppport signing?
> 
> This is the only thing left that I think needs fixing before the initial
> release. A couple of questions:
> 
> - Given that we want to keep the option open for using pdfsig to perform
> other signature operations, should the default behavior when only a pdf file
> is specified be to verify the signature? Or should we just indicate whether
> the pdf is signed and use an option to enable verification?

I think defaulting to verification makes sense as the "non destructive thing to
do".

> - Is '-c' the best option name for "don't perform certificate validation"? 

Honestly i don't think spending much time on discussing the option name makes
much sense, we just need to document it properly and that's it.

> 
> We also need a man page.

Yep.

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