Policy

Check the XAdES portions of a digital signature

This policy setting lets you specify whether or not Office 2016 checks the XAdES portions of a digital signature, if present, when validating a digital signature for a document. If you enable this policy setting, Office 2016 checks the XAdES portions of a digital signature when validating it. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, Office 2016 only validates XML-DSig and XAdES-BES portions of a digital signature.

Policy
PackMicrosoft Office
CategoryMicrosoft Office 2016 / Security Settings / Digital Signatures
Policy ID65ac62a9a68a
Internal nameL_CheckTheXAdESPortionsOfADigitalSignature

Registry

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HKCU\software\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\common\signatures\xadesvalidationlevel (enabled) = 1
HKCU\software\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\common\signatures\xadesvalidationlevel (disabled) = 0

Policy notes

This policy setting lets you specify whether or not Office 2016 checks the XAdES portions of a digital signature, if present, when validating a digital signature for a document. If you enable this policy setting, Office 2016 checks the XAdES portions of a digital signature when validating it. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, Office 2016 only validates XML-DSig and XAdES-BES portions of a digital signature.

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