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Re: Code Signing for Mac application
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Re: Code Signing for Mac application


  • Subject: Re: Code Signing for Mac application
  • From: Xochitl Lunde <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 09:26:34 -0600


> On Feb 16, 2010, at 9:18 AM, Paul Sanders wrote:
>
> AFAIK, the Mac does not check code signatures when it launches an
> app.  Even if it did, you would probably prefer it not to.  When an
> app is dragged to another folder, the Finder seems to add or modify
> something in the Resources folder, thus rendering the signature
> invalid.  I never got to the bottom of this - I could not reproduce
> it on my own machines - but it caused a lot of trouble in the field
> and lead me to abandon checking the validity of the signature (using
> codesign -v) in my own code.

>  
> Paul Sanders.
>  

If you don't mind, do you know if it was only certain versions of OS that had problems?  I'm initially deploying only for 10.5 and 10.6.
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