Re: Code Signing for Dummies
Re: Code Signing for Dummies
- Subject: Re: Code Signing for Dummies
- From: "Paul Sanders" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 15:34:07 -0000
> Apple can assume 2 applications calling themselves the same thing, with
> different versions, signed with the same self-signed cert were published
> by
> the same person, and by extension, that any user preferences (firewall and
> parental controls, are the only preferences that use code-signing at the
> moment) associated with that application apply to the new version.
> That said, 10.5's code-signing is not the final destination of this
> feature
> in OS X. They will extend the scope of code-signing tech in 10.6 and on.
> It
> was stated on another mailing at some point that Apple may choose to force
> non-code-signed applications down different execution paths.
OK, thank you. Is it possible, would you happen to know, for an application
to verify its own signature? I do this on Windows (using WinVerifyTrust) to
check that the code has not been tampered with. Can't trust anybody these
days :)
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