BS ISO/IEC 17960:2015 specifies a language-neutral and environment-neutral description to define the methodology needed to support the signing of software source code, to enable it to be uniquely identified, and to enable roll-back to signed previous versions. It is intended to be used by originators of software source code and the recipients of their signed source code. This International Standard is designed for transfers of source code among disparate entities.

The following areas are outside the scope of this International Standard:

• Determination of the trust level of a certification authority;
• Format used to track revisions of source code files;
• Digital signing of object or binary code;
• System configuration and resource availability;
• Metadata
  • This is partially addressed by ISO/IEC 19770-2;
• Transmission and representation issues
  • Though this could be an issue in implementation, there are techniques such as Portable Document Format (PDF) that can be used to mitigate these issues. This applies in particular to the transmission of digital signatures.

Cross References:
ISO/IEC 9594-8:2014
ISO/IEC 10118-3:2004
ISO/IEC 13888-1:2009
ISO/IEC 9796-2:2010
ISO/IEC 9796-3:2006
ISO/IEC 9899:2011
ISO/IEC 14750:1999
ISO/IEC 14888-1:2008
ISO/IEC 14888-2:2008
ISO/IEC 14888-3:2006
ISO/IEC 19770-2:2009
ITU-T Recommendation X.509:2008
ITU-T Recommendation X.509:2005


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