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Starting June 1, 2023, code signing certificate keys must be stored on a hardware security module or token that’s certified as FIPS 140 Level 2, Common Criteria EAL 4+, or equivalent. This is intended to fight against an increasingly common problem—stolen...

As concluded by the CA/B Forum, the “Organizational Unit” is a concept purely internal to a company, which therefore lacks credible, outside information sources for a Certificate Authority (CA) to use. As a result, the OU field cannot be authenticated...

HTTP based DCV or file-based validation is a domain validation process where the domain owner need to upload a file containing a unique identifier given to the certificate applicant by the Certificate Authority (CA). The CA server will locate and...