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US 11,030,278 B2Granted
Code signing system and method
AssigneeBlackBerry Limited
InventorsDavid Paul Yach, Herbert Anthony Little, Michael Stephen Brown
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AssigneeBlackBerry Limited
InventorsDavid Paul Yach, Herbert Anthony Little, Michael Stephen Brown
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A novel code signing system, computer readable media, and method are provided. The code signing method includes receiving a code signing request from a requestor in order to gain access to one or more specific application programming interfaces (APIs). A digital signature is provided to the requestor. The digital signature indicates authorization by a code signing authority for code of the requestor to access the one or more specific APIs. In one example, the digital signature is provided by the code signing authority or a delegate thereof. In another example, the code signing request may include one or more of the following: code, an application, a hash of an application, an abridged version of the application, a transformed version of an application, a command, a command argument, and a library.
A mobile device comprising:
A method implemented in a mobile device, the method comprising:
A non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions that when executed by one or more processors of a mobile device, cause the one or more processors to implement a method comprising:
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