Digitally sign PDF files from your commandline – open-pdf-sign
If only banks knew this!<p>They actively coax you into receiving your bank account statements as PDF, but I haven&#x27;t found ANY bank which signs the PDFs (while bragging about security all the time).<p>I wonder what happens if they lose your money due to bugs or even intentionally - will they then happily accuse you of forging the PDFs because they&#x27;re unsigned?<p>With paper that&#x27;d be not so trivial, in my country the paper often has some special format and the paper itself is of a special type, and it ages and you cannot easily guess the printer which was used.<p>Hence I still demand all my statements on paper. Same for utility companies, health care, and other institutions which want to convert their regular physical bills to PDFs.<p>I also demand paper because the concept of forcing the customer to manually go to N websites every month to download PDFs is idiotic. Nobody pays me for that wasted time of my life.<p>A paper mailbox instead is a central place where I can retrieve all of my documents easily in O(1). I wonder how many decades it will take the IT industry to realize that?