GeoTrust’s My Credential™ for Adobe® Acrobat® is a Certified Document Service (CDS) that changes the way recipients can trust your documents and electronic information. It allows you to create Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files that clearly certify to the recipient that your identity has been verified by a trusted organization and that any documents you send have not been altered. With My Credential for Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Acrobat 6.0, you can engage in more secure, reliable electronic document exchange.

Document integrity achieved seamlessly and simply
Together, Adobe and GeoTrust have developed a revolutionary solution for achieving and maintaining document authenticity and integrity. My Credential for Adobe Acrobat is the first ubiquitous implementation of document-validation technology; and, because it’s embedded in existing Adobe clients, it’s truly seamless and easy to use.

Certificate portability provides document security, anytime, anywhere
Your certificate and private key data is stored on a cryptographic hardware token. Carry this token with you and you can certify your PDF documents from any workstation running on a supported environment.

The highest level of document security available
Certified documents differ significantly from standard digitally signed ones. Although Adobe Acrobat allows authors to sign PDFs with any x.509 v3 digital certificate, this isn't the same as a certificate issued with My Credential for Acrobat. A Certified Document Services (CDS) certificate is signed by the GeoTrust for Adobe Certificate Authority (CA) that has been issued by the Adobe trusted root and embedded in Acrobat 6.0 and higher. Only certificates issued from this hierarchy will receive the certified signature validation mark. Relying parties don't need to decide for themselves whether the issuing CA should be trusted since the Acrobat application automatically verifies the validity of the certificate and displays a message to the relying party that the signature and/or contents have been validated.

How it works
With My Credential for Adobe Acrobat, recipients of your documents have the highest assurance that your certified Adobe PDFs can be trusted.

Recipients using the free Adobe Reader 6.0 will then have the ability to automatically validate certified documents with no additional software or configuration. The relying party simply clicks on a signature box within your document and is able to retrieve the certification status indicating whether the document is certified and if it has been modified. Signature properties, such as certificate details, your contact information and validation method, can also be viewed by the relying party.

Applications for Certified Document Services
The need to certify document authenticity is stronger than ever. Digital signature capabilities enable important documents and information to be delivered with added assurances that your information arrives exactly as you intended it. My Credentials for Adobe Acrobat is an ideal solution if you need to ensure strong authentication of of your documents, including:

• Financial and banking documents such as mortgage applications, brokerage transactions, promissory notes, loan applications and any other documents driven by high-value transactions
  
• Legal documents such as power of attorney, wills, trusts, settlement and arbitration agreements and other legal documents
  
• Real estate documents such as deeds, purchase and sales agreements, rental applications and leases
  
• Healthcare documents that contain highly sensitive information such as medical records and health care proxies
  
• Government documents such as patent and trademark applications, copyright forms, grant proposals, tax returns and other IRS forms
  
• Any other general business or personal communications that need to be verified as legitimate

Solution Highlights
My Credential for Adobe Acrobat highlights include:

• One year signing license
  
• A cryptographic device (USB token) and required drivers will be included with every certificate purchased
  
• World-class customer support via phone, email and the web

GeoTrust also offers an enterprise-class solution for organizations that need either multiple individual, department-wide or server-based certified document services. True Credentials for Adobe Acrobat provides a fully-managed, centralized, web-based management system for issuing digital certificates. Organizations may also deploy Adobe® LiveCycle™, which allows organizations to quickly certify large volumes of PDF files such as bank statements or reports in the name of an organization or department.