What is Certified Document Services (CDS)?
Certified Document Services (CDS) is a validation service for electronic documents specifically to attest to the authenticity and integrity of data through industry standard highly ubiquitous software (>800Million installations). Created by the Adobe® Root Certificate authority, CDS enables document authors to sign Portable Document Format (PDF) files, using digital certificates, which then automatically validate when recipients use the freely available Adobe® Acrobat® Reader software. No additional client software or configuration is required and the solution is multi-lingual through the wide variety of languages supported. http://www.adobe.com/products/reader/productinfo/languages/ CDS was designed to enable organizations and individuals who publish high-value documents to large and disparate recipient groups to increase the assurance level that the document’s integrity and authenticity are preserved. By adding Certifying Signatures and Approver Signature(s) to PDF files document aut
