{"id":158,"date":"2020-04-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/codesigncert.com\/resourcesnew\/validation-documents-required-for-code-signing-certificate\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T08:10:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T08:10:02","slug":"validation-documents-required-for-code-signing-certificate","status":"publish","type":"resources","link":"https:\/\/codesigncert.com\/resources\/validation-documents-required-for-code-signing-certificate","title":{"rendered":"What are the Validation Requirements for Code Signing Certificates?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 ez-toc-wrap-right counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"#\" data-href=\"https:\/\/codesigncert.com\/resources\/validation-documents-required-for-code-signing-certificate\/#Official_Registration_Documents\" >Official Registration Documents<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"#\" data-href=\"https:\/\/codesigncert.com\/resources\/validation-documents-required-for-code-signing-certificate\/#Dun_Bradstreet\" >Dun &amp; Bradstreet<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"#\" data-href=\"https:\/\/codesigncert.com\/resources\/validation-documents-required-for-code-signing-certificate\/#Legal_Opinion_Letter\" >Legal Opinion Letter<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"#\" data-href=\"https:\/\/codesigncert.com\/resources\/validation-documents-required-for-code-signing-certificate\/#Recognized_Third-Party_Directory\" >Recognized Third-Party Directory<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-lg-12 mb-3 p-2\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If you&rsquo;re an organization that develops software and applications, you may already know how important it is to sign your software, applications or code with a Code Signing Certificate.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So, what documents do you need to get a Code Signing Certificate? What&rsquo;s the process?<\/p>\n<p>Let&rsquo;s take a look,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For organizational validation Code Signing Certificate, there are four requirements<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Organization Authentication:<\/strong> The Certificate Authority (CA), tries to verify the organization is a legal entity and is active at a registered location.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Locality Presence:<\/strong> Here, the Certificate Authority tries to verify that your company or an organization has a physical presence within the registered state or country.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Telephone Verification:<\/strong> The Certificate Authority verifies the current and listed telephone number associated with your organization.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Final Verification Call:<\/strong> As the name implies, you will receive a final verification call from the Certificate Authority, and they will ask you simple questions such as &ldquo;did you order this?&rdquo; or &ldquo;what is the name of your company?&rdquo; for verifying the order details.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">All four of these requirements are processed by checking the information listed in an Online Government Database. In case your data is not up to date and it&rsquo;s not verified, no need to worry as there are alternate ways:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/codesigncert.com\/content\/theme1\/img\/resources\/documents-required-for-code-signing-certificate-validation.svg\" alt=\"documents required for code signing certificate validation\" title=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Official_Registration_Documents\"><\/span>Official Registration Documents<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>You can provide these documents issued by your local government that can prove that your organization is a legitimate legal entity, for example:<\/p>\n<p>a. Articles of Incorporation<br \/> b. DBA statements<br \/> c. A Chartered License<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Dun_Bradstreet\"><\/span>Dun &amp; Bradstreet<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>To verify details regarding your company, Certificate Authorities (CAs) considers the credit reports of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dnb.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Dun &amp; Bradstreet<\/a> to be reliable because it&rsquo;s one of the most well-known financial reporting companies in the world. A DNB report will satisfy three of the requirements,<\/p>\n<p>a. Operational Existence<br \/> b. Physical Address<br \/> c. Telephone Verification<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Legal_Opinion_Letter\"><\/span>Legal Opinion Letter<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A Legal Opinion Letter also called a Professional Opinion Letter (POL), is a letter written by an attorney or accountant, to vouch for the authenticity of a company or organization. The main benefit it offers is that it helps to satisfy multiple requirements:<\/p>\n<div class=\"et_pb_module et_pb_text et_pb_text_13  et_pb_text_align_left et_pb_bg_layout_light\">\n<p>a. Operational Existence<br \/> b. Organization Authentication<br \/> c. Employment Verification<br \/> d. Physical Address<br \/> e. Telephone Verification<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Recognized_Third-Party_Directory\"><\/span>Recognized Third-Party Directory<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If your business or organization details are listed in a trusted third-party directory such as:<\/p>\n<p>a. The Yellow Pages<br \/>b. Scoot<br \/>c. 192.com<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">and the listing matches with the information you provided, CAs will accept it to verify your Telephone Number.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 100%; float: left; margin: 30px 0; border: 5px solid #d6d6d6; border-radius: 5px;\">\n<div style=\"width: 100%; float: left; background-color: #108ab3;\">\n<div class=\"container\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div style=\"padding-left: 20px;\">\n<h3 style=\"font-size: 24px; text-decoration: underline; line-height: 30px; color: #ffffff; font-weight: bold; padding: 15px 0;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/codesigncert.com\/comodo-code-signing-certificate\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #fff;\"> Buy Comodo Code Signing Certificate at Only $59 Per Year <\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-lg-12 mt-5 mb-4\">\n<h4 class=\"text-primary mb-4 pb-2 border-bottom\">Related Articles<\/h4>\n<div class=\"row g-4\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\ufffdre an organization that develops software and applications, you may already know how important it is to sign your software, applications or code with a Code Signing Certificate. So, what documents do you need to get a Code Signing Certificate? What\ufffds the process? For organizational validation Code Signing Certificate, there are four requirements&#8230; Let\ufffds take a look,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":[],"resources_category":[50],"class_list":["post-158","resources","type-resources","status-publish","hentry","resources_category-code-signing-security"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>What are the Validation Requirements for Code Signing Certificates?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"We build the list of Code Signing Certificate documents which are required to be validated during the validation process of Code Signing certificate. 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