2018 sees the introduction of a new law after a 2 year transition period. The General Data Protection Regulation will have an impact on any companies selling into any European Union country (regardless of their location). These rules have teeth and the full weight of the European Court of Justice behind them. Failure to comply…
Bitcoin and PDFs might seem like very different and unconnected things. However there are surprising similarities between them. Bitcoin is changing the way finance works, bringing it into the digital age. Likewise PDFs brought us documents for the digital age. Here are 3 similarities between Bitcoin and PDF: Dependence on computers The defining factor of…
Security has made some big headlines recently, with the Spectre and Meltdown issues affecting processors being the most notable ones. Here at IDRSolutions, we’ve been hard at work improving the security in our products. Here are a couple of features we’ve added recently to our Java PDF library: Support for PDF files encrypted using AES-256…
What is a Cipher stream? Cipher streams act as streams except that they use a Cipher to process the data before it is passed to the underlying stream. This allows you to encrypt and decrypt data as you process it. One use of this is that you can encrypt data being saved to disc as…
As security is an ever present issue we thought we would highlight some security features offered by the PDF file format that can be enabled if you want to control or limit which actions users can perform. This blog post will cover what type of actions you can prevent and some different authentication techniques that…
