GoGetSSL EV Code Signing

The CodeSigning certificate was specifically developed for increasing the trustworthiness of your software products. This type of certificate protects your digital downloadable goods, like scripts or codes, by signing them and guaranteeing their authenticity and integrity. This certification brings a greater level of your customers’ trust, by ensuring them that your content is safe and it belongs to your company. Moreover, the Authenticode Technology guarantees that if the code will be damaged after being signed, the digital signature will break and alert the client that the software is no longer credible.

CodeSigning certificates are Business Validation (BV) and Personal Validation SSL certificates. The Business Validation SSLs require Certificate Authority’s (CA’s) authentication through providing your company’s documents, along with performing domain validation by email. The Personal Validation requires personal identification verification of the owner. The entire validation process may take up to 2 or 3 business days to issue your CodeSigning certificate that will serve as a third party guarantee for the authenticity of your digital goods.

You can find our full list of CodeSigning certificates at this link.

The main differences between Comodo (Sectigo) EV Code Signing and a regular code signing certificate from Comodo/Sectigo are the following two major features:

Extended Validation – offers the highest level of trust since Comodo/Sectigo verifies the publisher’s authenticity rigorously

Two-factor authentication – the main requirement to store the private key on an external hardware token (provided by mail by Comodo/Sectigo) in order to avoid any unauthorized access or malicious usage. Since the private key is stored only on this token, this feature drastically reduces the number of people who can access it, therefore protecting the key from being compromised. 

When you configure your Comodo/Sectigo Code Signing SSL Certificate, it is best to use some specific browsers for that. Here is an article that describes which browsers are best to use for configuring a Comodo/Sectigo Code Signing Certificate.

When you configure your Comodo/Sectigo Code Signing Certificate, make sure that “Advanced Private Key Options” is visible to you in the same way it is shown in the screenshot from the right. Internet Explorer is always a good option to configure your Comodo/Sectigo Code Signing Certificate.

For Mac Users, please see the following 2 resources:

• How to Import and Export a Client Personal Authentication Certificate on Mac OS X Keychain Access
• Codesign Digital Signatures in Mac OS

Attention: The export instructions for Mac may produce a certificate that does not include the Root/Intermediate crt files. Please download the Root/Intermediate crt files and include them in the command for the Code Signing SSL.

Here are the steps that you need to do in order to reissue your Comodo/Sectigo Code Signing Certificate:

1) Login at https://secure.trust-provider.com/products/frontpage?area=ssl using the username and password that you used when you configured your Comodo/Sectigo Code Signing Certificate initially;
2) Once you are logged in, find the “Replace” button and click on it;
3) You will start the reissue process for your Comodo/Sectigo Code Signing SSL.
4) Follow the steps and instructions that come next, until you complete the Comodo/Sectigo Code Signing Certificate reissue.

The Private Key was generated on your machine when you configured your Comodo/Sectigo Code Signing Certificate initially. The screenshot from the right shows the page where you configured your Comodo/Sectigo Code Signing Certificate initially. As you can see in the screenshot, you were given instructions on how to check and backup your Private Key.

If you lost your Private Key, then you have to reissue your Comodo/Sectigo Code Signing Certificate. You can do that by following the next steps:

1) Login at https://secure.trust-provider.com/products/frontpage?area=ssl using the username and password that you used when you configured your Comodo/Sectigo Code Signing Certificate initially;
2) Once you are logged in, find the “Replace” button and click on it;
3) You will start the reissue process for your Comodo/Sectigo Code Signing SSL.
4) Follow the steps and instructions that come next, until you complete the Comodo/Sectigo Code Signing Certificate reissue.

When you configure or re-configure your Comodo/Sectigo Code Signing SSL Certificate, it is best to use some specific browsers for that. Here is an article that describes which browsers are best to use for configuring a Comodo/Sectigo Code Signing Certificate.

To add your Company Name and TAX/VAT number, you have to login into your SSL Dragon Account and follow these steps:

1. Click on the “Hello, *Your Name*” button on the right top side of your account dashboard and select “Edit Account Settings”;
2. On the ‘My Details’ page, you will find the ‘Company Name’ and ‘Company TAX/VAT ID’ field;
3. Fill in these fields with the necessary information then click on ’Save Changes’. 

After you perform the above steps, your SSL Dragon account and all your invoices will be automatically updated with this information.

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