id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt blogs-msdn-microsoft-com-9638 Everything you need to know about Authenticode Code Signing | Microsoft Docs .html text/html 2259 165 64 As a small software publisher, the best way to accumulate your good reputation and allow it to benefit all of your software is to digitally sign your code. For instance, while most users have never heard of me, my freeware programs are digitally signed by my certificate, and the clean reputation for my certificate means that SmartScreen Application Reputation can identify them as non-malicious. When SmartScreen recognizes non-malicious code, the user benefits from a more streamlined trust experience, and fewer security prompts are shown when downloading and running the program. Of course, if I were to ever abuse my good reputation to sign and release malicious code, the SmartScreen system can easily revoke my good reputation—my certificate's signature would turn from a badge of honor into a flashing signal of untrustworthy software. To sign your program using Authenticode, you can use the SignCode.exe utility which shipped with the Microsoft .NET Framework version 1.1: ./cache/blogs-msdn-microsoft-com-9638.html ./txt/blogs-msdn-microsoft-com-9638.txt