Patent Document ID: 8650649
Application ID: 13214514

Base Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method for determining whether to independently evaluate the trustworthiness of digitally signed files based on signer reputation, the method comprising: identifying a file; determining that the file has been digitally signed; identifying a signer responsible for digitally signing the file; identifying a reputation of the signer, the signer's reputation being based at least in part on the determined trustworthiness of at least one additional file that was previously signed by the signer; determining whether the signer's reputation satisfies a predetermined threshold; only performing an independent evaluation of the trustworthiness of the file if the signer's reputation fails to satisfy the predetermined threshold; wherein each step of the method is performed by a computing device comprising at least one hardware processor.

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Claim 8:
8. The method of claim 1 , wherein identifying the reputation of the signer comprises at least one of: identifying a binary classification assigned to the signer; identifying a reputation score assigned to the signer.