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Re:Notepad++ drops code signing for its releases by Boulth on Thursday March 07, 2019 @01:45PM (#19330841)
Thanks for taking the time to describe your experience.

When you renewed the cert did you use the same key pair? (I'm wondering how does Microsoft correlate reputation).

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Re:Notepad++ drops code signing for its releases by GordonS on Thursday March 07, 2019 @01:47PM (#19330869)
No, it was a new key pair each time. I'm also rather interested to know how it decides reputation though!
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Re:Notepad++ drops code signing for its releases by Boulth on Thursday March 07, 2019 @02:34PM (#19331369)
Probably based on Subject name. It'd require a lot of money to verify that though (e.g. buying cert from another CA with the same name).
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