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What is Code Signing?While executing any piece of code or application, the users are not sure about trusting the code. This is also a major problem when accessing information through the internet. Once a user downloads software, the code executes locally on the machines and this is where the user begins to wonder if it’s safe or not to run the application. There is no way to confirm that the application code has not been altered while it was being downloaded from the internet. As a solution to this arises the concept and need for code signing.
To ensure that the software downloaded from internet is safe, we need to address 2 virtues:
a) Authenticity and integrity.
b) Various mechanisms to achieve this are:
c) Digital signatures
d) Digital certificates
e) Certificate store technology
f) Digital certification
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