Stand-alone timestamp certificates for electronic signatures

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

This allows compliance with some regulatory and industry requirements like Japan's Electronic Books Maintenance Act.

Configuration

Availability:

• Acrobat Standard and Acrobat Pro: Not Supported
• Acrobat Sign Solutions: Supported; Suppressed from the UI by default
• Acrobat Sign for Government: Supported; Suppressed from the UI by default

Configuration scope:

Contact the Acrobat Support team to expose the option in your menu. Once exposed, the feature can be enabled at the account and group levels.

Access this feature by navigating the administrator's configuration menu to Security Settings > Timestamp

How it's used

With the feature enabled, no additional actions are required from administrators or senders. The timestamp is automatically applied to the certification seal of all e-signature agreements

Things to know

• Adding a cryptographic timestamp may slightly increase the file size and processing time of agreements.
• The feature applies only to agreements containing e-signatures; agreements with digital signatures are not affected.
• The timestamp enhances compliance by providing verifiable proof of the signing time, which is crucial for certain regulatory requirements