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		Boulth on March 7, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Notepad++ drops code signing for its releases Thanks for taking the time to describe your experience. When you renewed the cert did you use the same key pair? (I'm wondering how does Microsoft correlate reputation).

GordonS on March 7, 2019 [–]

No, it was a new key pair each time. I'm also rather interested to know how it decides reputation though!

Boulth on March 7, 2019 | [–]

Probably based on Subject name. It'd require a lot of money to verify that though (e.g. buying cert from another CA with the same name).

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