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Levi P Broderick

Himanshu Soni

Prabu Raju

Morgan Asher Brown

Christopher Leonard Walstad

Fengfen Liu

Jeremy Scott Barton

Reed Molbak

Klaudia Leja

The authenticity of a compressed archive is verified without decompressing the files and/or directories contained therein and without impeding existing archive reader tools and utilities. A container is produced that includes a signature component and a compressed archive component. The signature component contains a digital signature of the compressed archive and the compressed archive component contains the compressed archive. The signature component and the compressed archive component are constructed as independent components so that existing software tools that operate on a compressed archive can still function in their normal course of operation.

Cryptographic verification of a compressed archive

A facility for enrolling a software implementer in a code signing. In one example facility, the facility receives information identifying the implementer, and credentials authenticating the implementer. The facility generates secret state for the implementer. Based on at least one or both of (1) at least a portion of the received credentials and (2) at least a portion of the generated secret state, the facility generates for the implementer a key pair comprising a private key and a public key, and persistently stores the secret state.

Code signing service

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