A certain script was recently altered by the author to meet certain security requirements, and needs to be executed on several critical servers. Which of the following describes the process of…

Digital encryption protects the confidentiality of data by making it unreadable to unauthorized parties but does not verify authorship or detect tampering.

Digital signing is the broader umbrella concept; code signing is the more precise and correct term when the artifact being signed is a script or executable.

Password entropy relates to the randomness and strength of passwords and has no relevance to verifying script integrity or authorship.

Code signing is the specific practice of applying a digital signature to a script or executable so that recipients can verify it was produced by the claimed author and has not been modified since signing. It directly addresses the requirement of ensuring no one other than the author altered the script. Unlike generic digital signing, code signing is the term used specifically in the context of software and scripts distributed to systems.