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Music hi I'm Jason steer and in this short tutorial I want to show you how to set up your own digital signature for signing off Adobe PDF documents first of all what is a digital signature well a digital signature is used to authenticate digital information such as documents email messages and macros by using computer cryptography digital signatures helped to establish the following assurances the authenticity the digital signature helps to assess the signer is who he or she claims to be the integrity the digital signature helps to assure that the content has not been changed or tampered with since it was digitally signed non reputation the digital signature helps to prove to all parties the origin of the signed content reputation refers to the act of a signers denying any association with the signed content so let's look at an example of a document that needs digital signage on my desktop here I have a PDF document of a time sheet that a contractor has sent me which needs authorizing with a signature since I am the manager of the project I'll need to sign this off in order for the contractor to be paid in my example here I have the authorized signature field at the bottom left of my form your form may look a lot different but you can generally make out where to add the signature on the form by the small red tag here when I left click the mouse in this field you'll see the add digital ID dialog box appear with a list of ways to select in order to sign the document I'm going to assume that you have never digitally signed a document before and will choose the a new digital ID I want to create now I'm now presented with two options to store my digital ID the first one is Adobe's built-in function which is selected by default and the other is a window certificate store I'll be using the Adobe built-in function so I'm going to say next now I need to enter my personal information so for example let's put the name in as John Smith and we'll say our organizational Department is the support department and the name of my organization is BTN s limited my email address will be John Smith at BTN s Co UK and I'll select my country which is the United Kingdom which I believe comes on the GB now if I were particularly paranoid I could change the type of algorithm to 102 for bit or 2o for 8-bit and I can also use the digital ID for digital signatures and data encryption or one or the other I'm going to leave everything as default and say next the next step is to save your digital ID in a place that you'll remember so in my case here I'm going to save it under my documents and I'll just leave it as John Smith ds4