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 it does not establish authorship or detect post-signing modifications.

Digital signing is a broad cryptographic concept encompassing signatures on many data types; code signing is the precise term for applying this process specifically to software, scripts, and executables.

Password entropy measures the randomness and unpredictability of a password to resist brute-force attacks and has no relevance to verifying the integrity or origin of a script.

Code signing applies a cryptographic digital signature to scripts or executables using the author's private key, so any server executing the script can verify the signature with the corresponding public key or certificate. If the script was modified by anyone other than the author after signing, the signature verification will fail, immediately detecting tampering. This is the industry-standard process for ensuring that code distributed to multiple critical servers was not altered between the developer's workstation and execution.