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.TH pdfsig 1 "28 October 2015" | |
.SH NAME | |
pdfsig \- Portable Document Format (PDF) digital signatures tool | |
.SH SYNOPSIS | |
.B pdfsig | |
[options] | |
.RI [ PDF-file ] | |
.RI [ Output-file ] | |
.SH DESCRIPTION | |
.B pdfsig | |
verifies the digital signatures in a PDF document. | |
It also displays the identity of each signer | |
(commonName field and full distinguished name of the signer certificate), | |
the time and date of the signature, the hash algorithm used for signing, | |
the type of the signature as stated in the PDF and | |
the signed ranges with a statement wether the total document is signed. | |
It can also sign PDF documents (options -add-signature or -sign). | |
.PP | |
pdfsig uses the trusted certificates stored in the Network Security Services (NSS) Database. | |
.PP | |
pdfsig also uses the Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) (refer to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Certificate_Status_Protocol) to look up the certificate online and check if it has been revoked (unless -no-ocsp has been specified). | |
.PP | |
The NSS Database is searched for in the following locations: | |
.IP \(bu | |
If the \-nssdir option is specified, the directory specified by this option. | |
.IP \(bu | |
The NSS Certificate database in the default Firefox profile. i.e. $HOME/.mozilla/firefox/*.default. | |
.IP \(bu | |
The NSS Certificate database in /etc/pki/nssdb. | |
.SH OPTIONS | |
.TP | |
.B \-nssdir "[prefix]directory" | |
Specify the database directory containing the certificate and key | |
database files. See certutil(1) -d option for details of the | |
prefix. If not specified the other search locations described in | |
.B DESCRIPTION | |
are used. | |
.TP | |
.B \-nss-pwd "password" | |
Specify the password needed to access the NSS database (if any). | |
.TP | |
.B \-nocert | |
Do not validate the certificate. | |
.TP | |
.B \-no-ocsp | |
Do not perform online OCSP certificate revocation check (local Certificate Revocation Lists (CRL) are still used). | |
.TP | |
.B \-no-appearance | |
Do not add appearance information when signing existing fields (signer name and date). | |
.TP | |
.B \-aia | |
Enable the use of Authority Information Access (AIA) extension to fetch missing certificates to build the certificate chain. | |
.TP | |
.B \-dump | |
Dump all signatures into current directory in their native format. Most likely it is either a unpadded or zero-padded CMS/PKCS7 bundle. | |
.TP | |
.B \-add-signature | |
Add a new signature to the document. | |
.TP | |
.B \-new-signature-field-name " name" | |
Specifies the field name to be used when adding a new signature. A random ID will be used by default. | |
.TP | |
.B \-sign " field" | |
Sign the document in the specified signature field present in the document (must be unsigned). Field can be specified by field name (string) or the n-th signature field in the document (integer). | |
.TP | |
.B \-nick " nickname" | |
Use the certificate with the given nickname for signing (NSS backend). If nickname starts with pkcs11:, it's treated as PKCS#11 URI (NSS backend). If the nickname is given as a fingerprint, it will be the certificate used (GPG backend) | |
.TP | |
.B \-backend " backend" | |
Use the specified backeng for cryptographic signatures | |
.TP | |
.B \-kpw " password" | |
Use the given password for the signing key | |
(this might be missing if the key isn't password protected). | |
.TP | |
.B \-digest " algorithm" | |
Use the given digest algorithm for signing (default: SHA256). | |
.TP | |
.B \-reason " reason" | |
Set the given reason string for the signature (default: no reason set). | |
.TP | |
.B \-etsi | |
Create a signature of type ETSI.CAdES.detached instead of adbe.pkcs7.detached. | |
.TP | |
.B \-list-nicks | |
List available nicknames in the NSS database. | |
.TP | |
.B \-list-backends | |
List available backends for cryptographic signatures | |
.TP | |
.B \-v | |
Print copyright and version information. | |
.TP | |
.B \-h | |
Print usage information. | |
.RB ( \-help | |
and | |
.B \-\-help | |
are equivalent.) | |
.SH EXAMPLES | |
.TP | |
pdfsig signed_file.pdf | |
Displays signature info for signed_file.pdf. | |
.TP | |
pdfsig input.pdf output.pdf -add-signature -nss-pwd password -nick my-cert -reason 'for fun!' | |
Creates a new pdf named output.pdf with the contents of input.pdf signed by the 'my-cert' certificate. | |
.TP | |
pdfsig input.pdf output.pdf -add-signature -nss-pwd password -nick 'pkcs11:token=smartcard0;object=Second%20certificate;type=cert' | |
Same, but uses a PKCS#11 URI as defined in IETF RFC 7512 to select the certificate to be used for signing. | |
.TP | |
pdfsig input.pdf output.pdf -sign 0 -nss-pwd password -nick my-cert -reason 'for fun!' | |
Creates a new pdf named output.pdf with the contents of input.pdf signed by the 'my-cert' certificate. input.pdf must have an already existing un-signed signature field. | |
.SH AUTHOR | |
The pdfsig software and documentation are copyright 1996-2004 Glyph & Cog, LLC | |
and copyright 2005-2015 The Poppler Developers - http://poppler.freedesktop.org | |
.SH "SEE ALSO" | |
.BR pdfdetach (1), | |
.BR pdffonts (1), | |
.BR pdfimages (1), | |
.BR pdfinfo (1), | |
.BR pdftocairo (1), | |
.BR pdftohtml (1), | |
.BR pdftoppm (1), | |
.BR pdftops (1), | |
.BR pdftotext (1) | |
.BR pdfseparate (1), | |
.BR pdfunite (1) | |
.BR certutil (1) | |