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henkbirkholz authored Aug 30, 2024
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Expand Up @@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ To motivate the two different modes of use that are specified in this documents,
In support of legal assurances, a signed document can be augmented with a trustworthy timestamp.
In essence, a document signer wants to strengthen the assertion that a certain document existed at a certain date.
To achieve this goal, the PDF signer acquires a TST from a TSA, includes it in the to-be-signed PDF that becomes the COSE payload and then signs it.
Using only its local clock instead, a PDF signer would be able to tamper with its clock and thereby falsify the recentness of the signing procedure.
Using only its local clock instead, a document signer would be able to tamper with its clock and thereby falsify the recentness of the signing procedure.

This usage scenario motivates the "Timestamp then COSE" mode below.

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