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.

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.

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.