Easy Guide to Setup an EV Code Signing Certificate

An Extended Validated(EV) code signing certificate offers the highest level of security and verifies the publisher's identity by removing the unknown publisher warning and the notorious SmartScreen filter. Hence, along with an additional layer of security, it also comes with some extra validation steps that the user has to fulfill through which the certificate authority(CA) will verify the legitimacy of the certificate requesting organisation as per guidelines of the CA/B Forum. Once the validation process is successfully completed, the certificate authority(CA) will send the EV Code Signing certificate along with an HSM device bearing the private key by courier to the requesting organisation's verified address.

This makes us clear that the collection process of an EV Code Signing certificate differs from that of a standard code signing certificate. But this isn't enough to enable you to digitally sign your software and applications until you install and successfully complete the setup process of the EV code signing certificate issued to you.

Let's take a glance at How to Setup an EV Code Signing Certificate issued to you in an easy step-by-step guide.