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Re:Upcoming Changes to Let's Encrypt Certificates by account42 on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @07:52AM (#46287875)
How is the CA/B forum relevant for code signing certificates?
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Re:Upcoming Changes to Let's Encrypt Certificates by beaugunderson on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @12:01PM (#46291014)
How are they not? :)

They set the baseline standard for code signing certificates. In 2020 they added the requirement to use hardware modules which resulted in much higher prices and fewer small developers opting to sign their code.

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