We are willing to change our Apple developer program membership organization information - including the organization name. As far as we know the signing certificate name is directly driven from the organization name. That is, after doing so, the certificates names within Apple developer account portal will changed.
- Will it affect the keychain stored certificates with the old certificate name?
- Will it be possible to continue signing software - with the keychain stored certificates with the old certificate name?
- Do these changes affect the upgrade procedure of already distributed software that was signed with a certificate with the old name - assuming the bundle identifiers stay intact?
Following the disclaimer in a post on a common topic, regarding the difficulty in giving a definitive answer without knowing the full scope of the build process, our build process refers the certificate name only during signing:
codesign --sign "Developer ID Application: CompanyName Ltd. (TEAMID)"...
productsign --sign "Developer ID Installer: CompanyName Ltd. (TEAMID)"...