VeriSign, a provider of internet infrastructure for the networked world, has revealed that it is an anchor member of the new Adobe Approved Trust List from Adobe Systems in addition to being a long-standing member of the Adobe Certified Document Services (CDS) programme.
The Adobe Approved Trust List (AATL) is a roster of independent Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) Certificate Authorities (CAs), trusted to verify digital signatures for users of the latest Adobe family of document creation and management applications.
The company claimed that Adobe applications will now automatically recognise VeriSign’s Non-Federal Shared Service Provider (SSP) CA as a trusted certificate authority and accept VeriSign’s Federal SSP CA.
VeriSign and Adobe reportedly allow federal agencies and enterprises to protect their PDF documents with digital signatures validated by the VeriSign Federal and Non-Federal SSP PKI services. The VeriSign Non-Federal SSP PKI service facilitates collaboration between federal and state governments and the public and private sector by enabling enterprises to operate at the assurance levels mandated by the federal government, VeriSign noted.
The managed service, which is offered for free to VeriSign Federal and Non-Federal SSP PKI customers, simplifies the task of managing digital certificates for authentication, encryption and digital signing.
The company said that validation from VeriSign enables recipients of these documents to: visually establish that the document comes from a trusted source; confirm that the digital signature is valid; and establish that the document’s contents have not been subject to tampering.
VeriSign Federal and Non-Federal SSP PKI services are enterprise PKI services that enable organisations to issue both client and device certificates, while leveraging both a public directory and Online Certificate Status Protocol validation services.
Michael Yatsko, product manager at VeriSign, said: For enterprises looking to protect their sensitive documents with a brand that is recognised and trusted the world over, the VeriSign Federal and Non-Federal Shared Service Provider PKI services offer an easy, scalable platform for deploying and managing digital signatures on a truly enterprise level.
