Stand-alone timestamp certificates for electronic signatures

Overview

Customers that require a cryptographic timestamp in their agreements, but do not want or cannot use digital signatures, have the option to associate a timestamp to the Certification Seal that is applied to all agreements generated in Adobe Acrobat Sign.

This allows for compliance with some regulatory and industry requirements like the Electronic Books Maintenance Act in Japan.

Availability:

Timestamp certificates for electronic signatures is available for enterprise license plans only.
Contact Acrobat Sign support to expose the option in your admin menus.

Configuration scope:

The feature can be enabled at the account and group levels.

How it's used

Once the feature is enabled for the account (or group), no further action is required by the admin or the sender. 

The cryptographic timestamp will be associated automatically to the certification seal for all agreements until the feature is disabled.

Configuration

Once Support has configured the settings on the backend, you will be notified.

At that time:

Things to know

Associating a cryptographic timestamp to the certification seal generates a small, but perceptible, increase in file size and processing time.