Technological solution aims to encourage the digitization and reduction of bureaucracy in processes
In partnership with the National Institute of Information Technology (ITI), Adobe expands its project to democratize the use of digital signatures in PDF documents in order to encourage digitization and process optimization. In 2016, using Adobe Reader and Acrobat DC, ITI and the University of Brasília (CESPE / UnB) – with technical support from Adobe, including a professional to compose the team of developers – created a plugin within the software capable of automatically perform validation of these signatures. Now, the project is going through a new stage that also allows Adobe Reader and Acrobat DC to generate the digital signature, automatically validating it with the ITI signature policy.
Since the beginning of the cooperation agreement, 100% of the certifiers that integrate the repository of the Root Certification Authority (AC-Raiz) of the Brazilian Public Key Infrastructure (ICP-Brasil) become part of the Adobe Approved Trust List (AATL), allowing signatures are automatically validated.
Before, as ICP-Brasil did not belong to AATL, the user needed frequent support from the federal authority to install the chains referring to the Certification Authority that issued the certificate, in addition to security updates. In this partnership, Adobe also supports ITI in approaching other markets and international bodies.
“Adobe, always engaged in promoting digitalization, sees great value in this project for the democratization of digital signatures. For this, we involved the company's global engineering team in order to technically support our technology, helping in the development and integration of the plugin with Adobe Reader and Acrobat DC", explains Eduardo Jordão, responsible for the documentation solutions (Adobe Sign and Acrobat) at Adobe Brazil.
The Brazilian market
The entry of ICP-Brasil in the AATL directly impacted the flows of digital signatures from different sectors of the market, with emphasis on the legal sector. With the use of the Electronic Judicial Process (PJ-e), the Brazilian judiciary has become one of the largest cases of use of digitally signed documents: judges, lawyers, judges and others are signing documents with ICP-Brasil certificate.
Since August 2015, Brazil has a public policy for digital signatures for the PDF Advanced Electronic Signatures (PAdES) standard. As the creator of the PDF - which later became an open standard maintained by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) - Adobe occupies a chair in a group managed by the ITI and worked in direct partnership to create and approve this policy, which culminated in with the inclusion of ICP-Brasil in its Trust List.
“The advent of the availability of Raiz da ICP-Brasil in Adobe's solutions has made the use of digital certificates much simpler. Today Brazil has more than 9 million active digital certificates, a number that should double next year, which gives us an idea of the size of the opportunity that lies ahead, both to develop a sustainable business and to help the country become more adherent to technology”, concludes Jordão.
Since the beginning of the cooperation agreement, 100% of the certifiers that integrate the repository of the Root Certification Authority (AC-Raiz) of the Brazilian Public Key Infrastructure (ICP-Brasil) become part of the Adobe Approved Trust List (AATL), allowing signatures are automatically validated.
Before, as ICP-Brasil did not belong to AATL, the user needed frequent support from the federal authority to install the chains referring to the Certification Authority that issued the certificate, in addition to security updates. In this partnership, Adobe also supports ITI in approaching other markets and international bodies.
“Adobe, always engaged in promoting digitalization, sees great value in this project for the democratization of digital signatures. For this, we involved the company's global engineering team in order to technically support our technology, helping in the development and integration of the plugin with Adobe Reader and Acrobat DC", explains Eduardo Jordão, responsible for the documentation solutions (Adobe Sign and Acrobat) at Adobe Brazil.
The Brazilian market
The entry of ICP-Brasil in the AATL directly impacted the flows of digital signatures from different sectors of the market, with emphasis on the legal sector. With the use of the Electronic Judicial Process (PJ-e), the Brazilian judiciary has become one of the largest cases of use of digitally signed documents: judges, lawyers, judges and others are signing documents with ICP-Brasil certificate.
Since August 2015, Brazil has a public policy for digital signatures for the PDF Advanced Electronic Signatures (PAdES) standard. As the creator of the PDF - which later became an open standard maintained by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) - Adobe occupies a chair in a group managed by the ITI and worked in direct partnership to create and approve this policy, which culminated in with the inclusion of ICP-Brasil in its Trust List.
“The advent of the availability of Raiz da ICP-Brasil in Adobe's solutions has made the use of digital certificates much simpler. Today Brazil has more than 9 million active digital certificates, a number that should double next year, which gives us an idea of the size of the opportunity that lies ahead, both to develop a sustainable business and to help the country become more adherent to technology”, concludes Jordão.
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