1pdfsig(1) General Commands Manual pdfsig(1)
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6 pdfsig - Portable Document Format (PDF) digital signatures tool
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9 pdfsig [options] [PDF-file]
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12 pdfsig verifies the digital signatures in a PDF document. It also dis‐
13 plays the identity of each signer (commonName field and full distin‐
14 guished name of the signer certificate), the time and date of the sig‐
15 nature, the hash algorithm used for signing, the type of the signature
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19 The signer certificate validation uses the trusted certificates stored
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23 · If the -nssdir option is specified, the directory specified by
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26 · The NSS Certificate database in the default Firefox profile.
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29 · The NSS Certificate database in /etc/pki/nssdb.
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32 -nssdir [prefix]directory
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41 -dump Dump all signatures into current directory.
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48 The pdfsig software and documentation are copyright 1996-2004 Glyph &
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53 pdfdetach(1), pdffonts(1), pdfimages(1), pdfinfo(1), pdftocairo(1),
54 pdftohtml(1), pdftoppm(1), pdftops(1), pdftotext(1) pdfseparate(1),
55 pdfunite(1) certutil(1)
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