Introducing Microsoft® Office InfoPath™ 2003

Adding Digital Signatures to Forms

InfoPath supports the use of X.509 digital certificates to enable applying digital signatures to an entire form or to individual groups or fields of a form. InfoPath stores the digital signature data for an entire form in the data document’s signatures group. Assigning signatures to individual form groups or fields adds signatures subgroups to the document’s signatures group.

Applying a digital signature ensures recipients that a data document or its specific groups or fields originated from a specific person or computer and hasn’t been modified by anyone else. If anyone alters the document’s content subsequent ...