chktrust (1)

Leading comments

chktrust manual page.
Copyright 2003 Motus Technologies
Copyright 2004 Novell
Author:
  Sebastien Pouliot (sebastien@ximian.com)

(The comments found at the beginning of the groff file "man1/chktrust.1".)

NAME

chktrust - Check the trust of a PE executable.

SYNOPSIS

chktrust [options] filename

DESCRIPTION

Verify if an PE executable (CLR assembly, Win32 EXE or DLL) has a valid Authenticode(r) signature that can be traced back to a trusted certificate authority (CA). This means that

(a) the signature is valid (i.e. file integrity) and,

(b) the code-signing certificate can be chained back to one of the

certificates in the Trust store.

OPTIONS

-q, -quiet

Quiet mode. Limited display on console.

-v, -verbose

Verbose mode. More details displayed on the console.

-help, -h, -?, /?

Display help about this tool.

KNOWN RESTRICTIONS

chktrust cannot validate Authenticode signatures on CAB files.

AUTHOR

Written by Sebastien Pouliot

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2003 Motus Technologies. Copyright (C) 2004 Novell. Released under BSD license.

MAILING LISTS

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WEB SITE

Visit www.mono-project.com for details

SEE ALSO

signcode(1),makecert(1),certmgr(1),setreg(1)