Handling PDF digital signatures in LibreOffice with PDFium

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Describes LibreOffice’s recent work on PDF digital signatures: adding visible PDF signatures and replacing the internal signature verification tokenization with Google’s PDFium library so verification on file open uses more battle-tested code. Explains implementation details, remaining rough edges, and ways contributors can help.

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