Code signing involves overlapping vocabularies from cryptography, PKI, Windows internals, and CA/B Forum policy. The same underlying concept sometimes carries different names depending on context: a ‘thumbprint’ and a ‘fingerprint’ are the same thing; a ‘cloud HSM’ and an ‘HSM…
Code signing has expanded from a Windows desktop distribution requirement into a foundational layer of software supply chain security. The statistics behind that shift reveal two concurrent trends: rapid growth in legitimate adoption driven by regulatory and platform mandates, and…
Code signing helps with antivirus false positives, but it does not eliminate them. That is the honest starting point for this topic, and it is different from how most code signing vendors frame it. A code signing certificate tells an…
