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1. The signed PDF

Any PDF. If it has no signature, it says so.

Drop the PDF here, or choose it The file is read, the byte ranges are hashed and the signature is taken apart in this tab. Nothing is uploaded, and nothing about the file is sent anywhere.

How it works

PDFSIG checks whether that happened: it hashes the bytes the signature covers, compares them with the digest stored in the signature, and shows whether anything was added afterwards and what changes the signer allowed. A matching digest means the signed bytes are intact. It does not by itself prove who the signer really was. Your PDF is not uploaded.

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