Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Document Protection
User Manual
For Windows NT, Me, 2000 and XP
Version 1.0, April 2006
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Trademarks
All brand names and product names used in this book are trade names, service marks,
trademarks, or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
WIBU-SYSTEMS is Member of
PCMCIA since 1993
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SmartShelter|PDF is the PDF document protection of WIBU-SYSTEMS AG.
With this product you can encrypt your PDF documents with the secure
WIBU-SYSTEMS hardware solutions CodeMeter and WIBU-KEY. All
programs you need are included as plug-ins for Adobe Acrobat or Adobe
Acrobat Reader.
There is also the possibility to protect many documents at once using the
batch processing facility of Adobe Acrobat.
To create protected PDF documents with CodeMeter or WIBU-KEY please
read the section SmartShelter|PDF Author beginning at page 5.
To read protected documents with SmartShelter|PDF Reader please read
the section SmartShelter|PDF Reader beginning at page 17.
1.1 Principle
To protect the PDF document a password is generated with the connected
CM-Stick or WIBU-BOX. The whole document is then encrypted with this
password which is 32 characters long.
The advantage of this solution is that the document is protected with a
strong password, and every document has a different password. But the
readers havent to care about these passwords because all passwords are
generated with the CM-Stick / WIBU-BOX on the fly while opening the PDF
document. Also through the length and randomness of the generated
passwords it is impossible for cracker programs to determine the password.
The PDF document can be opened with the generated password, even if no
CM-Stick or WIBU-BOX is connected.
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This part of SmartShelter|PDF is needed to protect PDF documents. It runs
as plug-in inside Adobe Acrobat.
2.1 Installation
2.1.1 Preparation
You need only to install the SmartShelter|PDF Author plug-in. You need
not to install the SmartShelter|PDF Reader plug-in. The reading
functionality is already included in SmartShelter|PDF Author.
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To protect an open document, please select the menu entry or click the
toolbar button. Then the SmartShelter|PDF security dialog is shown, in
which you can setup the encryption parameter in a security dialog. After
accepting the security dialog with OK you are prompted to save the PDF
document as new file.
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With the security dialog of SmartShelter|PDF you can set the encryption
parameters. Also you can set the permissions according to the usual Adobe
Acrobat document permissions.
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Here you can set the entries, with which the password will be generated
with the WIBU-BOX or CM-Stick. You can select the preferred hardware for
protection, if you have installed both WIBU-KEY and CodeMeter. Enter here
the FirmCode, which is individually assigned to your company. You can
also use the demo FirmCode 10 for testing. Please be sure to have connected
a proper Firm Security Box (FSB) . For WIBU-KEY you can check this by
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opening the WkList32 program. For CodeMeter you can check this by using
the WebAdmin.
After accepting this dialog with OK you will be prompted to save the
document as new PDF file.
Here you can open the permissions dialog for setting the document
permissions and backward compatility for older Adobe Acrobat versions.
As default printing and changes of the protected document are not
permitted.
2.2.2 Permissions
With the SmartShelter|PDF permissions dialog you can set the usal PDF
document permissions, which you find in Adobe Acrobat 5 7. As default
there is no printing allowed and no changes are permitted.
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With the Compatibility combo box you can choose, with which
Adobe Acrobat version the encrypted document can be at least
opened.
With the selections Printing Allowed and Changes Allowed
you can allow the reader the rights for printing and changing the
document.
If the checkbox Enable copying is activated the reader can copy
contents out of the encrypted document.
With the About dialog of SmartShelter|PDF you can get more information
about the current installation. Also the displayed information will help our
support team to find out problems you may encounter using
SmartShelter|PDF.
You can view the About dialog with the menu Help About Third-Party
Plug-Ins. The following dialog will be shown:
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2. You see the Batch sequences dialog, in which you can define
different action sequences. We will now create a new sequence for
encrypting documents with SmartShelter|PDF.
3. Click here on the New Sequence button, and give the new
sequence a name like Protect with SmartShelter.
4. The dialog Edit Batch Sequence is displayed.
To built up a sequence, you must first choose a command which
will be later executed. Please activate in the Edit Batch Sequence
dialog the button Select commands.
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5. Here you see a dialog with all possible commands which are
registered in Adobe Acrobat.
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7. Accept the Edit sequence dialog with OK, too. You see again
the Edit Batch sequence, now with the new command Encrypt
multiple files.
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If you have many documents, which were already protected with one single
password (not with SmartShelter|PDF), you can remove it also within the
batch process:
1. Select the menu entry Edit Preferences Gerneral Batch
Processing
2. Set the security method from Do not ask for password to
Password security.
You are now requested to enter the current password of the documents if
you start the batch process.
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3.1 Installation
3.1.1 Preparation
With the About dialog of SmartShelter|PDF Reader you can get more
information about the current installation. Also the displayed information
will help our support team to find out problems you may encounter using
SmartShelter|PDF Reader.
You can view the About dialog with the menu Help About Third-Party
Plug-Ins. The following dialog will be shown:
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After that you are requested to enter the password for this document. To
open this document please ask the author for a programmed CM-
Stick/WIBU-BOX or for the password of this document.
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If you open a protected PDF document and you havent yet installed
the CodeMeter or WIBU-KEY Runtime Kit, the following message
appears:
The software from the runtime kit is needed to access the hardware
(CM-Stick or WIBU-BOX). The latest version of the
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