Monday, January 14, 2008

About PDF Encryption

You can use PDF encryption to lock a file's content behind a password, but more often it is used to enforce lighter restrictions imposed by the author. For example, the author might permit printing pages but prohibit making changes to the document. Here, we continue from and explain how pdftk can encrypt and decrypt PDF documents. We'll begin by describing the Acrobat Standard Security model (called Password Security in Acrobat 6) and the permissions you can grant or revoke.

PDF file attachments get encrypted, too. After opening an encrypted PDF, document file attachments can be opened, changed, or deleted only if the owner granted ModifyAnnotations permission.

Page file attachments behave differently than document file attachments. Once you open an encrypted document, you can open files attached to PDF pages regardless of the permissions. Changing or deleting one of these attachments requires the ModifyAnnotations permission. Of course, if you have the owner password, you can do anything you want.


3 comments:

Secure PDF Files said...

Hello,

PDF Encryption software set password security on any PDF documents. Software is a reliable and flexible tool to set user password and owner password on any pdf document. Thank you...

Tee Chess said...

There are specialized tools available to encrypt a PDF file for the security of the information that it contains. One of the best tool is digital signature that verifies the originator of the document and ensures that the file is original.
digital signature PDF

AdeleB said...

You can easily have some control over what people can do with your PDF document with some decryption and ecryption functionality. Besides digital signature for PDF protection, it is quite easy to decrypt PDF and encrypt PDF.