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TRUST_E_FINANCIAL_CRITERIA
TRUST_E_FINANCIAL_CRITERIA should be read at the legacy Authenticode financial extensions boundary. The selected trust policy expects legacy financial-software certificate extensions or criteria that the signer certificate does not contain. For legacy Authenticode financial extensions, the useful diagnostic question is which concrete object and operation caused Windows to select this exact HRESULT—not whether a key, certificate, account, file, or device merely “works.”
What the code establishes
This is a legacy Authenticode policy result tied to financial-software certificate criteria in a legacy Authenticode financial extensions investigation. For TRUST_E_FINANCIAL_CRITERIA, determine which trust action and provider requested those extensions, which certificate was selected, and whether the application still intentionally depends on that historical policy.
Facts to preserve before changing state
| Record | Why it matters for this code |
|---|---|
| trust action GUID and policy provider requesting financial criteria | Identifies the trust action, subject representation, and signer state when TRUST_E_FINANCIAL_CRITERIA is returned. |
| signer certificate extensions and enhanced key usages | Separates signature decoding, certificate selection, and final policy when TRUST_E_FINANCIAL_CRITERIA is returned. |
| application compatibility requirements and results under current standard Authenticode policy | Prevents success under a different trust action from masking the original failure when TRUST_E_FINANCIAL_CRITERIA is returned. |
Code-specific checks:
- Record the WinVerifyTrust action GUID and policy provider; ordinary generic Authenticode verification may use a different action.
- Inspect certificate extensions and intended application policy.
- Do not add arbitrary extensions to a certificate; use the policy and certificate profile designed for the application.
Preserve the evidence chain
For TRUST_E_FINANCIAL_CRITERIA, trust verification is a pipeline, not one Boolean check. For TRUST_E_FINANCIAL_CRITERIA, align artifact acquisition, signature decoding, signer selection, countersignature or timestamp processing, chain construction, revocation retrieval, and final action policy. In the TRUST_E_FINANCIAL_CRITERIA path, preserve provider state before closing it so the generic top-level result can be connected to the stage that actually rejected the subject.
- Original signed artifact or catalog identity and the exact WinVerifyTrust action and flags when TRUST_E_FINANCIAL_CRITERIA is returned.
- In the TRUST_E_FINANCIAL_CRITERIA path, signer, countersigner, timestamp, chain, revocation, and nested provider results.
- For TRUST_E_FINANCIAL_CRITERIA, verification from a second tool configured to apply equivalent policy, not merely a signature-only check.
Isolation procedure
Verify the same signature under the exact legacy action and under the normal current Authenticode action, recording the difference in a legacy Authenticode financial extensions investigation. For TRUST_E_FINANCIAL_CRITERIA, do not assume the certificate is generally invalid because one legacy policy rejects it.
| Test | Interpretation |
|---|---|
| Same input, known-good path | For legacy Authenticode financial extensions, success moves attention toward the selected provider, policy, device, context, or transaction state. |
| Known-good input, failing path | For legacy Authenticode financial extensions, failure suggests that the environment or selected object is independently unable to perform the operation. |
| Original path after one isolated change | For legacy Authenticode financial extensions, this comparison demonstrates whether the proposed correction addresses the original condition. |
Common wrong turns
This specialized policy result should not be generalized into a normal code-signing chain failure. In the TRUST_E_FINANCIAL_CRITERIA path, adding arbitrary certificate extensions or replacing the signer without understanding the consuming trust action can create a signature that still fails or is semantically misleading.
For legacy Authenticode financial extensions, also retain the original numeric value; neighboring constants can encode materially different remediation paths even when an application presents all of them as an authentication, certificate, or security failure.
Proving the intended path works
Either the required legacy criteria must be satisfied by an appropriately issued certificate, or the application must deliberately migrate to a supported trust action in a legacy Authenticode financial extensions investigation. For TRUST_E_FINANCIAL_CRITERIA, keep a regression case that uses nonsecret identifiers and expected outcomes, including one negative control that must continue to fail.
Technical references
For TRUST_E_FINANCIAL_CRITERIA, these sources define the HRESULT and the relevant legacy Authenticode financial extensions interface, protocol, or data format.
- Microsoft Open Specifications: HRESULT values.
- Microsoft: WinVerifyTrustEx.
- Microsoft: WINTRUST_DATA.
- RFC 5652: Cryptographic Message Syntax.
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