Patent ID: 11902453
Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A method to delay production code signing for a software package, the method comprising:
generating a transient code signing key pair (TKP) and a transient intermediate code Certificate Authority (CA) key pair (CKP);
issuing a transient code signing CA Certificate for the TKP (TCACert), wherein the TCACert is signed with a CKPPriv;
signing each code artifact in a signing session with a TKPpriv;
embedding a TCAcert in the software package;
approving production release of a production version of the software package;
delay-issuing a CKPcert by using a product root CA public key; and
publishing a CKPcert;
wherein publishing CKPcert further comprises publishing the CKPcert at a pre-defined location pointed-to by TCAcert embedding.