Re: FLOSS support for signed PDFs

[Raj Kiran Grandhi]

I wrote:
How are they doing this detection [of Acroread]?

Celejar writes:
I don't know.

I suspect they rely on internet explorer being the browser, install some 
sort of activex control and retrieve whatever information they can about 
the users' computer. (This can potentially include sensitive information)

If it is not a requirement for you to deal with this particular 
financial institution, I recommend switching to someone else having 
better standards support (and inform the original institution about it 
and your reasons for the change).

Otherwise, try the version of adobe reader that is available for linux, 
though I guess they won't be able to detect that it is installed if you 
access their site using linux. If this check for 'reader' is a one time 
process, you can probably try connecting to their site from a trusted 
windows machine with adobe reader installed, get through with the 
verification step and then continue your transactions from your normal 
machine.

HTH,
rajkiran


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