PDF security options.

Protect PDF with password

There is free software available for extracting PDF passwords, so for password protection to be
secure the PDF document needs to be encrypted for use in a custom PDF reader.

Advanced Security Encrypt With Password

Protect PDF with expiry date

Setting a date on a PDF document for the document to expire, after which the PDF document
will become inaccessible, is a common practice. But it is also a protective technique that is far
too easy to exploit because every PDF maker has used the computer's date for time checking, and
one only has to set their computer's date back in time to rejuvenate an expired document. So to
properly protect PDF expiration an independent time check is required, consulting a timer server
online.

Prevent PDF printing

To prevent the printing of a PDF can only be done by using a custom reader, and ideally one that
uses an encrypted PDF document to prevent its contents from being extracted. Limiting the
number of prints cannot be maintained and remain hack-free without utilizing an online database
for validation checks. Any PDF reader trying to police its own security as a standalone
application can be easily hacked because it will be keeping its records on the user's computer,
and even if these are stored in the computer's registry they are easily accessed and can be
modified. Any updatable record maintained by the PDF reader can be hacked.

Advanced Security Encrypt With Password

Prevent PDF copy

Preventing a PDF document from being copied is a most difficult task. The PDF document can
of course be duplicated as its original form but the prevention of copying by taking a screenshot
requires what most PDF readers do not posses, and that's the ability to protect the PDF from

Advanced Security Encrypt With Password

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