I need to digitally sign a PDF document. Do i need a certificate for that? Is there any way to create a digital signature for pdf without any certificate? If certificate is compulsory how can i get certificate ?
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1have you read http://itextpdf.sourceforge.net/howtosign.html? – jcomeau_ictx Mar 12 '12 at 04:46
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what is my_private_key.pfx ? How do i have that ? – Santhosh Mar 12 '12 at 05:04
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it's right there in the document. – jcomeau_ictx Mar 12 '12 at 05:09
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this command gives an error : keytool -genkey -keyalg RSA -alias myname -keypass password -keystore keystore.ks -dname "cn=Paulo Soares, c=PT", ERROR : keytool error: java.io.FileNotFoundException: keystore.ks (Access is denied). Where iam going wrong – Santhosh Mar 12 '12 at 05:38
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why don't you ask the guy who posted the answer? make him work for his rep :^) – jcomeau_ictx Mar 12 '12 at 05:56
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let us [continue this discussion in chat](http://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/8771/discussion-between-santhosh-and-jcomeau-ictx) – Santhosh Mar 12 '12 at 06:03
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http://itextpdf.sourceforge.net/howtosign.html Explains all. – Rahul Borkar Mar 12 '12 at 04:58
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possible duplicate of [How do i add digital signature to my PDF file?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9599010/how-do-i-add-digital-signature-to-my-pdf-file) – Peter O. Mar 14 '12 at 15:42
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http://stackoverflow.com/a/379033/1398222 – user1509 Jul 21 '12 at 04:27