What is the validity period of an Office 2000/VBA Code Signing Certificate?
Office 2000/VBA Code Signing certificates are valid for one year. • If my Office 2000/VBA Code Signing certificate expires in one year, do I have to re-sign all of my code every year? Your VeriSign Digital ID will expire one year after it is issued. However, most software is intended to have a lifetime of longer than one year. To avoid having to re-sign software every time your certificate expires, VeriSign and Microsoft introduced a timestamping service. Now, when you sign code, a hash of your code will be sent to VeriSign to be timestamped. As a result, when your code is downloaded, clients will be able to distinguish between: Code signed with an expired certificate, which should NOT be trusted, and Code signed with a certificate which was valid at the time the code was signed, but which has subsequently expired. This code MAY be trusted. • Will my customers have to download a new version of the signed code when the old code expires? No, not if you have timestamped your code. • Where
