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Code signing with Software Trust Manager

v0.0.2 Latest version

Code signing with Software Trust Manager

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Code signing with Software Trust Manager

Code signing automation with private key protection and multi-factor authentication (MFA)

Installation

Copy and paste the following snippet into your .yml file.

              

- name: Code signing with Software Trust Manager

uses: digicert/ssm-code-signing@v0.0.2

Learn more about this action in digicert/ssm-code-signing

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Code signing with Software Trust Manager

Code Signing with Software Trust Manager GitHub action is a streamlined keypair-based signing workflow that improves software security and seamlessly integrates with DevOps processes to sign binaries on Windows and Linux.

This action accelerates the installation and configuration of clients and various signing tools to help developers become signing-ready for GitHub action workflows.

Software Trust Manager

DigiCert® Software Trust Manager provides a solution to manage and automate your code signing workflows in a secure way.

Software Trust Manager will:

  • Require multi-factor authentication (MFA) for signing.
  • Prevent unauthorized access or misuse of keys and certificates.
  • Enforce consistency and compliance of security policies.
  • Guard against insertion of malware during software releases.
  • Expedite remediation by giving you an audit history of all actions taken within your account.

You can use Software Trust Manager to securely:

  • Generate and manage your credentials.
  • Create, edit, import, export, or delete keypairs.
  • Generate certificates using a keypair in your account.
  • View your audit and signature logs.
  • Create releases.
  • Sign code.

DigiCert ONE account

Software Trust Manager is part of the DigiCert ONE platform, which also includes DigiCert® Trust Lifecycle Manager, DigiCert® Document Trust Manager, and DigiCert® IoT Trust Manager, enabling organizations to manage their diverse PKI workflows from a single pane of glass.

You require a DigiCert ONE account to access Software Trust Manager. If you do not currently have a DigiCert ONE account, you can request a 30-day free trial account from DigiCert Sales.

Use cases

This is a list of popular use cases supported by Software Trust Manager. This is not a comprehensive list.

  • APK signing
  • ClickOnce signing
  • Container signing
  • Docker signing
  • HLK and HCK signing
  • JWT signing
  • KSP signing
  • OVA and OVF signing
  • PKCS11 signing
  • Strong name signing
  • Visual Studio signing
  • XML detached signing
  • XML signing

Signing tools

This is a list of popular signing tools supported by Software Trust Manager. This is not a comprehensive list.

  • Jarsigner
  • jSign
  • jwt.io (for JWT signing)
  • Keytool
  • Mage
  • NuGet
  • OpenSSL
  • Osslsigncode
  • p11tool
  • Podman (for container signing)
  • Sign4j
  • SignTool (for Microsoft authenticode signing)
  • Xmlsectool

Documentation & Guides

For comprehensive documentation, refer to: GitHub custom action for keypair signing

Feedback and issues

Contact DigiCert

Learn more

To learn more about centralizing and automating your code signing workflows with Software Trust Manager, reach out to Sales/Enquiry or visit: https://www.digicert.com/signing/secure-software-manager.