14.5 Digital Certificates. The Software uses digital certificates to help you identify downloaded files
(e.g., applications and content) and the publishers of those files. For example, Adobe AIR uses digital
certificates to help you identify the publisher of Adobe AIR applications and the Adobe Acrobat
family of products uses digital certificates to sign and validate signatures within PDF documents and
to validate certified PDF documents. Your Computer may connect to the Internet at the time of
validation of a digital certificate. Please see Section 16.7 for further information regarding digital
certificates.