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FYI: Digital Signatures in PDFs Are Broken

From: J Leslie Turriff <jlturriff@...>
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2019 00:43:53 -0500
	From Bruce Schneier's CryptoBlog newsletter:

"This would matter more if PDF digital signatures were widely used. Still, the
researchers have worked with the various companies that make PDF readers to
close the vulnerabilities. You should update your software."

https://web-in-security.blogspot.com/2019/02/how-to-spoof-pdf-signatures.html

"Details are here."
https://www.nds.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/media/ei/veroeffentlichungen/2019/02/12/report.pdf
[Ironically, in a PDF file.]

Leslie