code signing certificate : Java Glossary

2007-05-26 by Roedy Green ©1996-2008 Canadian Mind Products
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code signing certificate: A certificate used to sign your computer programs you write to prove it was you who wrote it, and that no one tampered with it. You can buy such a certificate from companies such as Thawte, or you can make your own using keytool. You sign your jars with jarsigner. You use a Java code signning certificate to sign jars, and an Authenticode certificate to sign Microsoft cab files and PAD xml files.
certificate
jarsigner.exe
keytool.exe
PAD
Thawte

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