You absolutely don't need to understand code signing to know what an OID is or does. Also, the suggestion that you need to pay $1000 to get your own OID tree t

You absolutely don't need to understand code signing to know what an OID is or does. Also, the suggestion that you need to pay $1000 to get your own OID tree to use is naive at best and disingenuous at worst. The Private Enterprise Numbers registry is a thing that exists and is free to use: https://www.iana.org/assignments/enterprise-numbers/ https://www.iana.org/assignments/enterprise-numbers/