Example code for https://withinrafael.com/whats-the-gobbily-gook-in-a-package-family-name

sample.cs

// Rafael Rivera
// License: MIT

using System;
using System.Linq;
using System.Security.Cryptography;
using System.Text;
using MhanoHarkness; // NuGet: Base3264-UrlEncoder

namespace PublisherId_Sample
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            using (var sha = SHA256.Create())
            {
                var publisher = "CN=Microsoft Corporation, O=Microsoft Corporation, L=Redmond, S=Washington, C=US";
                var hash = sha.ComputeHash(Encoding.Unicode.GetBytes(publisher)).Take(8).ToArray();

                Console.WriteLine($"Publisher\t: {publisher}");
                Console.WriteLine($"Publisher ID\t: {Base3264Encoding.ToBase32Crockford(hash).ToLower()}");
                Console.ReadKey();
            }
        }
    }
}