What is a developer certificate?
A developer certificate is a digital certificate which can be used for signing pieces of code, macros, or other downloadable content. Signing such an item means that the users who are downloading it can be confident that: • it was produced and/or authorised by the organisation in whose name the certificate was issued, and • it has not been tampered with or altered since the item was signed. This means that you can be more confident, when downloading material, that it is what its producer intended to make available. For instance, it cannot have been infected with a virus in transit. In some applications, such as Java applets, only signed code can request or be granted certain privileges (such as access to a user’s files); it’s also possible to timestamp code so that you know when it was signed, as well as by whom.
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