Trusted Digital Transactions: Send and Receive Verifiable PDFs with Lissi

Lissi
4 min readMay 16, 2023

The digital age has brought immense convenience and efficiency to our daily lives, but it has also introduced new challenges when it comes to verifying the authenticity of documents. PDFs are a widely used format for sharing important information, but the ease with which they can be altered leaves room for fraud and misrepresentation. This has led to a demand for a more secure way of sending and receiving PDF documents. Enter Lissi and its ID-Wallet solution for verifiable PDFs.

Lissi is a cutting-edge digital identity platform that enables organisations to establish trusted relationships, and send and receive verifiable credentials, including PDFs. With Lissi, the integrity and authenticity of your documents are ensured, eliminating the need for lengthy verification processes. In this blog post, we will delve into the challenges associated with verifying PDF documents, the benefits of using verifiable PDFs within your organisation, and how this technology is integrated into the Lissi Wallet.

This technology is a game-changer for organisations, which deal with sensitive information and want to secure their customer relationship. In this article, we will focus on the Lissi Agent, which organisations use to interact with ID-Wallets such as the Lissi Wallet.

The Challenge with Verifying PDF Documents

Verification processes of PDF documents can be time-consuming and cumbersome, often involving multiple steps to ensure the authenticity of a document. This can lead to delays and increased costs for organisations, hindering their ability to operate efficiently. Furthermore, these processes are not foolproof, and there is always a risk of human error or oversight, potentially exposing organisations to fraud and other risks.

In a world where trust is paramount and speed is essential, these challenges have created a pressing need for a more secure, efficient, and reliable way to verify PDF documents. Our verifiable PDF feature addresses these challenges head-on, offering a solution that is both user-friendly and highly secure.

Using Verifiable PDFs in your organisation:

The Lissi Wallet with showing interactions with verified contacts and verifiable PDF documents.
  1. Employee documents: Provide your employees with verifiable documents about their income, benefits, certifications or accounting documents.
  2. Public reporting: Provide verifiable annual reports, financial statements, management reports, auditors reports and much more.
  3. Contracts: Provide your clients with legal certainty by providing them with verifiable insurance, sales, service, or warranty contracts.
  4. Project milestones and protocols: Automatically send members of a project team updates and protocols into their wallet.
  5. Confidential documents: Provide your shareholders with verifiable documents such as shareholder agreements, board meeting minutes or executive compensation plans.

Benefits of using Lissi for verifiable documents:

Seamless Integration

A verifiable PDF is seamlessly integrated as an attribute of a verifiable credential, providing an intuitive and user-friendly experience. Recipients can easily access and manage their verifiable PDFs within the Lissi Wallet. When requested by an organisation, the document is automatically pre-selected waiting for explicit consent to be presented to a requesting entity.

Robust Security

Security is a top priority for Lissi, and this extends to the verifiable PDF feature. State-of-the-art cryptography ensures that the authenticity and integrity of documents are maintained throughout the entire process, protecting organisations and their data from fraud and tampering.

Interoperable and Standards-Based

Our integration of verifiable PDF is built on open standards, ensuring interoperability with a wide range of digital identity solutions and platforms. This means that organisations can confidently adopt the technology, knowing that it will work seamlessly with existing systems and meet industry requirements.

Step-By-Step Guide on How to Send and Receive Verifiable PDFs

To get started with sending and receiving verifiable PDFs using Lissi, follow these simple steps:

  1. Setup your company agent
    Request a free Lissi Agent and set up your company agent according to your needs. This includes the type hosting and type of document / credential you want to issue.
  2. Establish a connection to your target audience
    Your clients or members can directly connect to your company agent with their ID-Wallet. Once connected the communication can be used to interact and form a more robust and trusted relationship.
  3. Automatically issue verifiable PDF documents.
    Trigger the issuance of a new document to all or a subset of your contacts who should receive the document within their wallet.
  4. Request and verify existing documents and credentials
    Your company agent can also be connected to your business partners, such as suppliers, which potentially already have verifiable credentials or documents such as organisational-IDs or verified IBAN credentials to streamline your internal processes.

In today’s fast-paced digital world, the need for secure and efficient document verification has never been more critical. Lissi’s verifiable PDF feature addresses this need by providing a solution that is both user-friendly and highly secure.

With verifiable PDFs, organisations can streamline their processes, reduce the risk of fraud, and enhance data privacy. The seamless integration, robust security, and interoperability of Lissi Wallet make it an ideal choice for organisations looking to revolutionise their stakeholder relationship with trusted transactions.

About Lissi:

We offer simple applications for organisations build trusted relationships and issue, manage and store digital credentials. This includes the Lissi Wallet and our applications for organisations. Contact us here.

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