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Technical Proposal
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Other digital certificates
Technical Proposal
Industry Solutions
Code Signing Certificate is designed to protect software script and code from potential alteration from 3rd party entities. With encrypted digital signature, the certificate gives users assurance that they are downloading authenticate software and offers a complete protection to your code against tampering. If you expect many people to use your software, Code Signing certificate deserves it!
Organization Validation
Issue within 1-5 Days
Support to All Major Platforms
Remove Unknown Publisher Warnings
Boost Downloads & Installs
Improve Publisher's Reputation
Extended Validation
Issue within 1-5 Days
Support to All Major Platforms
Remove Unknown Publisher Warnings
Boost Downloads & Installs
Improve Publisher's Reputation
Instant SmartScreen Filter
Physical USB Token Storage
Organization Validation
Issue within 1-5 Days
Support to All Major Platforms
Remove Unknown Publisher Warnings
Boost Downloads & Installs
Improve Publisher's Reputation
Extended Validation
Issue within 1-5 Days
Support to All Major Platforms
Remove Unknown Publisher Warnings
Boost Downloads & Installs
Improve Publisher's Reputation
Instant SmartScreen Filter
Physical USB Token Storage
Summary
Code Signing Certificate assures the code is not altered or tempered by since it is digitally signed by the certificate authority. The CA offers private key for software making and the public key for users.
Certificate undertakes organization verification to prove that software code is signed with strong hashing and coming from a trusted and authenticated publisher and is safe to download.
With Code Signing certificate, there will be no warning of “Unknown Publisher” hence; software users will get confidence about code integrity and avoid unauthorized download.
When authenticated publishers distribute their software with a digital signature, the certificate helps them gain the trust and confidence of consumer. What’s more, it is conducive to boosting downloads and installs.
Executing software without code signing will be reminded automatically unknown publisher warning. The warning dialog may scare your users and even they don't utilize it any more.
Code Signing certificate ensures that code is from the original publisher. It removes the 'Unknown publisher' warning, offers a smooth user experience and helps to increase the downloads of software.
Code Signing ensures developers' software code is authenticated, provides advanced protection along with code and content integrity and prevents from tempering or compromising since it is signed.
Every software with its own code signing has a digital signature which provides the mechanism to verify the identity of the original publisher of the software, which makes the process a whole more reliable.
Users will feel safe and confident while downloading your legitimate software, and then the trust level of users will automatically increase. So it is an ideal solution for software development.
Code Signing certificate gives the user a sense of security, hence hiking up your software publisher’s reputation in the market and making the distribution of software a lot easier, resulting in a high download ratio and revenue.
EV Code Sign certificate offers Microsoft SmartScreen filter feature that checks software, application, executables against a list of malicious software sites and programs. If it finds the application legit, it will establish the reputation of an application.
Code signing is now available on multiple platforms such as Apple iOS, Windows, Linux, Android, JAVA, Adobe AIR etc. Many of these platforms highly recommend code signing process for code distribution.
FAQs on SSL Certificates
Code signing is the process of authenticating software code/application/program/scripts to confirm the original publisher and assure that the code has not been tampered or altered since it was signed.
Yes. There are two types: Organization Validation (OV) Code Signing Certificate (also named Standard Code Signing) and Extended Validation (EV) Code Signing Certificate.
OV code signing certificate
EV code signing certificate
