Object signing concepts

Use this concept and reference information to learn more about digital signatures and the object signing and signature verification processes work.

Before you begin using object signing and signature verification capabilities, you may find it helpful to review some of these concepts:

• Digital signatures
  Learn about what digital signatures are and what protection they provide.
• Signable objects
  Learn about which objects you can sign and about command (*CMD) object signature options.
• Object signing processing
  Learn how the process of signing objects works and what parameters you can set for the process.
• Signature verification processing
  Learn how the process of verifying an object signature works and what parameters you can set for the process.
• Code checker integrity verification function
  Learn how you can verify the integrity of the code checker function that you use to verify the integrity of your system.