Technical specification
- Feature list
- Available editions
- Supported platforms
- Development tools
Feature list
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PDF security features, supported by PDFBlackbox are:
- digital signing of PDF documents using X.509 certificates (including CDS certificates from Adobe) and plain RSA keys. Algorithms used for signing include SHA1, SHA2 (SHA256, SHA384 and SHA512), RIPEMD160 hash algorithms with RSA signing algorithm and PKCS#1 or PKCS#7 format
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- signature timestamping using TSP (Timstamping Protocol) ;
- validation of signatures and timestamps ;
- certificate-based public key PDF encryption using RSA algorithm and PKCS#7 format ;
- strong password-based PDF encryption using AES algorithm with 128 or 256-bit key (AES128 or AES256, supported by Acrobat 9.0 and later) ;
- standard password-based PDF encryption using MD5 + RC4/40 or RC4/128 algorithms ;
- ZLib compression ;
- support for visible, invisible and certification (MDP) signatures ;
- support for Cryptocards and USB Crypto Tokens ;
- support for PDF format versions 1.3 to 1.7 ;
- (optional) FIPS-compliant operation mode
PKI Infrastructure is used by PDFBlackbox for certificate-based operations and is provided by PKIBlackbox, base functions of which are included into PDFBlackbox.
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Available editions
PDFBlackbox is available in several editions for various software platforms.
.NET edition.
This edition of PDFBlackbox includes pure managed components, carefully optimized to achieve maximum performance, comparable to native processor code.
.NET edition requires .NET Framework 4.0, .NET Framework 3.5, .NET Framework 3.0, .NET Framework 2.0, .NET Framework 1.1, Silverlight 4, Silverlight 3, Mono 2.0, Mono 1.0, .NET CF (Compact Framework) 3.5, .NET CF 2.0, .NET CF 1.0.
.NET edition can be used on ASP.NET server systems, Windows desktop systems, Windows Mobile PDAs, Silverlight-enabled browsers, on Linux and MacOS X systems with Mono installed.
VCL edition.
Blazingly fast native Delphi (Pascal) components for building native Windows and Linux applications. Usable with Delphi, C++ Builder or FreePascal (Win32 or x64, Linux/x86 or Linux/x64).
VCL edition works on any computer with Windows 98 and later or with Linux kernel 2.4 and later.
Supported platforms
- Windows:
- Windows 2008 R2 Server (32-bit, 64-bit AMD64 and 64-bit Itanium)
- Windows 7 (32-bit, 64-bit AMD64 and 64-bit Itanium)
- Windows 2008 Server (32-bit, 64-bit AMD64 and 64-bit Itanium)
- Windows Vista (32-bit, 64-bit AMD64 and 64-bit Itanium)
- Windows 2003 Server (32-bit, 64-bit AMD64 and 64-bit Itanium)
- Windows XP (32-bit, 64-bit AMD64 and 64-bit Itanium)
- Windows 2000
- Silverlight:
- Silverlight 4
- Silverlight 3
- Microsoft .NET Framework:
- .NET 4.0 (32-bit, 64-bit AMD64 and 64-bit Itanium)
- .NET 3.5 (32-bit, 64-bit AMD64 and 64-bit Itanium)
- .NET 3.0 (32-bit, 64-bit AMD64 and 64-bit Itanium)
- .NET 2.0 (32-bit, 64-bit AMD64 and 64-bit Itanium)
- .NET 1.1 (32-bit)
- .NET Compact Framework:
- .NET CF 3.5
- .NET CF 2.0
- .NET CF 1.0
- Mono:
- Linux:
- Linux distributions with kernel version 2.6 or later on x86 and x64 platforms
Development tools
Various editions of PDFBlackbox are used with different development tools:
.NET edition of PDFBlackbox can be used with
- MS Visual Studio 2010
- MS Visual Studio 2008
- MS Visual Studio 2005
- MS Visual Studio .NET 2003
- CodeGear RAD Studio 2010 (Delphi Prism)
- CodeGear RAD Studio 2009 (Delphi Prism)
- Borland Developer Studio 2006 (C# Builder personality)
- Borland Delphi 2005 (C# Builder personality)
- Borland Delphi 8
- Borland C# Builder
- MONO development tools
VCL edition of PDFBlackbox is offered for
- CodeGear RAD Studio 2010 (Delphi/Win32 and C++Builder personalities)
- CodeGear C++Builder 2010
- CodeGear Delphi 2010
- CodeGear RAD Studio 2009 (Delphi/Win32 and C++Builder personalities)
- CodeGear C++Builder 2009
- CodeGear Delphi 2009
- CodeGear RAD Studio 2007 (Delphi/Win32 and C++Builder personalities)
- CodeGear C++Builder 2007
- CodeGear Delphi 2007
- Borland Developer Studio 2006 (Delphi/Win32 and C++Builder personalities)
- Borland Delphi 2005 (Delphi/Win32 personality)
- Borland Delphi 4-7
- FreePascal 2.0.2 or later (Win32 and Linux / x86)
Support for Delphi 2009 and C++Builder 2009 is provided in SecureBlackbox 7.
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Compression gives an additional level of security and lets you increase transfer speed significantly and reduce the network load and storage space requirements.
Synchronous operation mode gives you a linear programming approach without complicated callback functions. This approach saves your development time and reduces the number of errors.
Asynchronous operation mode, on the other hand, gives you flexibility and complete control over your application communications.
Synchronous operation mode gives you a linear programming approach without complicated callback functions. This approach saves your development time and reduces the number of errors.
Simple SecureBlackbox components can be used for reliable data transfer no matter what type of proxy or firewall is used to protect the network.
You can process huge files and not be bound by restrictions of 32-bit environments. This feature works on both 32-bit and 64-bit systems without any limitations.
To limit and control network load and bandwidth consumption you can setup maximum upload and download speed for the data transfer components.
Transport (SSL, FTP, HTTP, SMTP, SSH, SFTP) components can be used in IPv6 networks without any problems, address conversions or packet wrapping.
In FIPS operation mode SecureBlackbox uses only certified CryptoAPI modules of Windows to perform any cryptographic operations.
FIPS mode is available only on Windows platform.
With DNSSEC support enabled you protect your socket connection from being fooled by possible DNS cache poisoning and other malicious DNS activities.
DNSSEC requires that the DNS record for the destination server contains a certified signature.
Cryptographic hardware gains more and more popularity every day. If your software deals with X.509 certificates or PKI in general (RSA keys etc.), it is time to support cryptocards and USB tokens.
To use cryptographic hardware you need a license for PKIBlackbox.
SecureBlackbox was written from the ground up by EldoS Corporation developers.
It doesn't use third-party code to implement its cryptographic functions.
This means that you are not bound by CryptoAPI or OpenSSL version when you need to use certain algorithm.
At the same time it's possible to plug third-party security libraries and hardware modules by utilizing the pluggable architecture of SecureBlackbox.
No royalties means the licensing procedure which is clear and easy to understand and manage. Pay for the license once and use it for development and deployment with no other payments.
We provide free technical support via web-based Forum and HelpDesk. Support is available for everyone, and the requests from clients who purchased a license are given priority.
Also you can use our extensive knowledgebase.
With PDFBlackbox you can be sure that you can exchange the documents with any PDF application that the other party uses.
Password-based encryption is the basic encryption type supported by most (if not all) PDF readers.
Many components can encrypt the data using the password. But it's PDFBlackbox that provides document encryption using X.509 certificate.
With certificate-based encryption you can prepare the documents, which are supposed to be read by just one or several recipients. And you don't need to share the common passwords between all parties.
Digital signing of the documents becomes more and more popular every day. Now you can publish your documents and sign them with X.509 certificates without the need for expensive Acrobat and its SDK.
Timestamping is a vital part of digital signing procedure, that allows you to certify the time, when the signature was made.
With PDFBlackbox you can create visible or invisible signatures.
What's more, you can create certification and modifcation detection signatures.
This type of signatures allows certain document modifications such as filling the forms while protecting the main document contents.
Validation of the digital signature is usually much more than just verifying the cryptographic signature.
Correct validation includes signature verification, checking of the signature timestamp, verification of validity of the certificate and all of its issuer certficates.
With PDFBlackbox you can build your own verification procedures.
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Latest version
8.0.176
Released 23 May 2010
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