Security Analysis on Digital Signature Function Implemented in Electronic Documents Software

Electronic documents have characteristics that detecting whether an electronic document is modified or not is not an easy process. Thus verifying integrity of documents is very important for using electronic documents. To facilitate this process, various electronic document software provide digital signature capabilities on themselves. However, there were not much research on the security of digital signature function of software. Therefore, in this paper, we analyze the security of Adobe PDF, MS Word, Hancom Hangul, digital notary service and digital year-end-settlement service, and propose recommendations for implementation of digital signature funcion.