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Professional Engineers: Comply with State Digital Signature Regulations
GlobalSign makes complying with Digital Signature regulations easy. All you need is a GlobalSign Digital Certificate for digitally signing PDFs (stored on a USB) and our free browser-based PDF signing tool and you can create secure PDF that comply with state mandated signature criteria.
Adobe USB token
holds credentials
Free PDF Signing Tool
binds credentials to PDF
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Digitally signed PDF, stamped with Professional Engineer seal (Click for sample)
- Comply with State Requirements
- Protect your ideas and reputation
- Don't waste time copying, scanning, faxing/mailing hard copies
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Quickly and easily apply Digital Signatures to PDFs to meet State regulations
Ensure document integrity and authorship - changes made to the document after it has been digitally signed will trigger an alert message
Certified PDFs reduce paper usage and digital submissions remove the need for snail mail
Digital submissions significantly cut down on the time spent delivering drawings and plans - remove the packaging and mailing step
Department of Transportation Digital Signature Requirements
The Kentucky Department of Transportation 201 KAR 18:104, among many other State Transportation Departments, provides engineers the following guidance in terms of what is required when applying digital signatures to drawings such as highway plan sets. GlobalSign's PDF Signing Solution meets all of these criteria.
1. It is a unique identification of the signer: A unique Digital Certificate is assigned to individual users including identity information verified by GlobalSign's vetting agents. Adobe explicitly trusts Digital IDs that are issued from the Adobe Root hierarchy.
2. It is verifiable: Digital signatures applied with GlobalSign Digital IDs are instantly and easily verifiable using Adobe Free Reader. The signature validation process verifies that the author has been authenticated, the contents of the PDF have not been changed, and the date and time of the signature came from a trusted source.
3. It is under the signer's direct and exclusive control: The GlobalSign Digital ID and corresponding signing private key are secured on a GlobalSign furnished USB dongle of which the engineer has sole possession.
4. It is linked to the electronic document in such a manner that causes changes to be easily determined and visually displayed if any data in the electronic document file is changed subsequent to the digital signature having been affixed to the electronic document
5. An attempt to change the electronic document after the digital signature is affixed shall cause the digital signature to be removed or altered significantly enough to invalidate the digital signature: Changes to document can be easily determined and visually displayed and an attempt to change the electronic document after the digital signature is affixed shall cause the digital signature to be removed or altered significantly enough to invalidate the digital signature
6. If the electronic document is to be electronically transmitted, the electronic document is converted to a read-only format: Many transportation departments explicitly state PDF as the file format as it provides an easy method to distribute documents in Read only mode.
