Digital Signature Authentication with Mac OS

Mac OS Code Signing Certificate

Allow users to run Mac executables error free. Help instill confidence in those running your Mac OS X software, tools, updates, utilities and applications by signing your executables with DigiCert's Apple Code Signing Certificates. Signing your code provides identity assurance, alleviates the stress of code being compromised with insertion of malware, and protects your reputation as the author.

Apple code signing certificates allow developers to sign software for Mac OS, as well as updates for your software. Because your code signing certificate verifies both the authenticity and source of the code, and that the code has not been tampered with since being signed, your users can work with your software the way they are supposed to without having to worry about the security concerns that plague software distribution today, especially in the online world.

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What are Code Signing Certificates?

Code Signing Certificates were developed to help establish the source and integrity of code, as well as specify to applications the purposes for which the code was created. Starting with Mac OS 9 (and carried on through Mac OS X) code signing has been integrated with the Apple OS to allow developers to manage these important functions. In order to ensure the secure distribution of code, developers should obtain what is called a code signing certificate to effectively stamp code with a kind of "stamp of authenticity."

The Apple OS will carry out policy checks based on a digital code signature, and in the event that code has been tampered with, or the signature is not trusted or not valid, users will be presented with these warnings before running or installing code.