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Code signing refers to message signing of a executable or script, | Code signing refers to [[message signing]] of a executable or script, | ||
* to help prove it was not changed in transit | * to help prove it was not changed in transit | ||
and/or | |||
* to prove and was made by who says made it | * to prove and was made by who says made it | ||
A hash would be enough for the former, but asymmetric cryptography is better for the second, | |||
not even quite because a hash is trivial to generate, | |||
more in the "if you can intercept the message, you can probably also intercept the hash" sense. | |||