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I believe one of the main security benefits of these requirements are ensuring a binary hasn't been altered maliciously, or otherwise I guess. Not preventing ou
by nickspag 6y ago
I believe one of the main security benefits of these requirements are ensuring a binary hasn't been altered maliciously, or otherwise I guess. Not preventing outright malicious applications.
Also so the os doesn't have to repeatedly rescan apps, etc.
- saagarjha 6y agoThat is what codesigning does.
- art4ur 6y agoIt's like sha256sum but cost $99 a year.
- mlindner 6y agosha256sum generates a sum, you still need to store that sum somewhere that isn't controlled by the malware creator or they can just change the sum too. All major Linux distros for example still have no viable way of creating signed programs or anything like Gatekeeper.