{"id":108,"date":"2023-03-31T11:43:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T03:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sslcert.com.hk\/blog\/?p=108"},"modified":"2025-09-01T11:54:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T03:54:50","slug":"upcoming-changes-to-code-signing-certificates-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sslcert.com.hk\/blog\/en\/2023\/03\/31\/upcoming-changes-to-code-signing-certificates-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Upcoming Changes to Code Signing Certificates Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n\n\n<p>Beginning <strong>June 1, 2023<\/strong>, the Certificate Authority\/Browser (CA\/B) Forum will introduce an important update aimed at strengthening the protection of Code Signing Certificates against misuse and malware threats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In line with this new requirement, effective <strong>April 23, 2023<\/strong>, all <strong>OV Code Signing Certificates<\/strong> will no longer be issued using software-based keys. Instead, the certificate and its private key must be stored securely within a <strong>hardware device<\/strong> such as a USB token or Hardware Security Module (HSM).<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beginning June 1, 2023, the Certificate Authority\/Browser (CA\/B) Forum will introduce an important update aimed at strengthening the protection of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":109,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[41,42],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sslcert.com.hk\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sslcert.com.hk\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sslcert.com.hk\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sslcert.com.hk\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sslcert.com.hk\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sslcert.com.hk\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sslcert.com.hk\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sslcert.com.hk\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sslcert.com.hk\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sslcert.com.hk\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}