Certificate for Microsoft Authenticode

This certificate is mainly used to ensure integrity of created software. It protects applications or files published or sent across the Internet against hackers’ interference, and against getting infected with a harmful code. Since the certificate carries a software author’s details and/or data of a company that produced an application, it is also used to confirm the authenticity of software by means of reliable authentication of an application’s author. In case of downloading and running software through the Internet, this certificate is used by an operating system to identify reliable and secure applications.

• reliable software identification – certified information concerning an author of an application and/or a company that produced the software,
• guaranteed security of an application – protection against code modifications by third parties,
• protection against getting infected with a harmful code (viruses, Trojan horses, etc.),
• secure software distribution via the Internet,
• high level of the certificate drawer’s financial liability.

• X.509 v.3 (RFC5280), compliant,
• secured with RSA-SHA1 cryptographic function,
• minimal cryptographic key length RSA/DSA 2048 bit, EC 571 bit: sect571k1 (NIST K-571) and sect571r1 (NIST B-571),
• issued by CERTUM - a certificate authority holding a WebTrust certificate which confirms the compliance with international standards for Certification Authorities,
• issued by CERTUM - whose root certificate is automatically recognized as trusted in modern web browsers,
• verification of the certificate's status is possible via CRL lists and the OCSP protocol.

To obtain the certificate:

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 or newer
• MS Windows 2000, XP, Vista (32 bit), Windows 7 (32 bit)

For code signing:

• SignTool
• SignCode – for older versions of Windows
• Visual Studio Express