Sectigo Extended Validation Code Signing certificates offer the highest level of identity authentication available. Sectigo will ask your company to undergo an extensive vetting process in order to verify identity. While this may sound intense, it’s not for any company with up to date records and registration. This process typically takes 1-5 business days.

Why Use Code Signing Certificate

Hackers can easily edit your code and compilations by injecting bed code in your application, it could be virus, malware, fishingware, trojan or something like this which finally target the client computer as a result security of user is compromised. If you sign your code or compilations with this certificate then client can identify your signatures and trust your copy of compilation. Such application distribution copy can be installed by client without any warning from system.

Authentication

This is the extended validation code signing certificate and you have to provide company related documentation and some other formalities to make sure that your business is genuine and legally working or running. Sectigo claim that this process take only 1-3 days but you should remember that it is extended validated certificate and there may be more delay in process of authentication. therefore we suggest you to order enough in advance so you have some extra days to manage delays. It is recommended to follow SSL Critical date of renew for renewal purpose.

Safety and Compatibility

This certificate digitally signs code with 32-bit or 64-bit portable executable including .cab, .exe, .dll, .csx, and kernel mode software. Additionally, the Sectigo Code Signing certificate creates digital signatures using a public-key algorithm like the RSA public-key cipher.

Protect code with the use of digital signatures

If you're looking for a quick and affordable way to secure code and increase customer trust, look no further than the Sectigo Code Signing certificate. These code signing certificates help ensure that any code or content you're looking to distribute over the internet is safe from modification, re-hosting, and impersonation by malicious third parties. The Sectigo Code Signing certificate will immediately let your customers know that they can trust the software they are downloading, since it has been verified by a world-renowned security company like Sectigo.

Security & Encryption

This certificate digitally signs code with 32-bit or 64-bit portable executable including .cab, .exe, .dll, .csx, and kernel mode software. Additionally, the Sectigo Code Signing certificate creates digital signatures using a public-key algorithm like the RSA public-key cipher.

SAN & Multi-Domain Support

Since these are not technically SSL certificates, but rather security certificates designed to encrypt code, this field does not apply here. There is no SAN or wildcard support available on Code Signing certificates.

Features & Benefits

• Customer Confidence
  They protect and reassure your customers by assuring them that the integrity of the code they download from your site is intact - that it has not been tampered with or altered in transit.
• Authenticity
  After downloading, end users can be sure that the code they obtained really came from you, helping you preserve your business reputation and intellectual property. Digital ID's allow customers to identify the author of digitally signed code and contact them should an issue or query arise.
• Seamless Integration with Industry-Standard Technology
  Most browsers will not accept action commands from downloaded code unless the code is signed by a certificate from a trusted Certificate Authority, such as Sectigo.
• Ease of Use
  Code signing certificates are easy to use in conjunction with the vendor software tools that developers use to create products, macro's and objects.
• Digitally sign 32-bit or 64-bit executables including .exe, .ocx, .dll, .cab and kernel mode software
• Create a trusted sales outlet - Wherever they download from, your customers can be sure they are receiving the genuine software
• Widely supported - Compatible with Microsoft Authenticode (including kernel-mode signing), Adobe Air, Apple applications and plug-ins, Java, MS Office Macro and VBA, Mozilla object files and Microsoft