Re: User-perspective question about code signing Mac apps (non Mac App Store)
Re: User-perspective question about code signing Mac apps (non Mac App Store)
- Subject: Re: User-perspective question about code signing Mac apps (non Mac App Store)
- From: Ross Carter <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 13:34:00 -0400
On Apr 12, 2011, at 12:19 AM, David Dunham wrote:
> On 11 Apr 2011, at 13:27, Eric Wing wrote:
>
>> I got Xcode to sign our Mac version of our app using the same
>> certificate. I was kind of expecting the first time launch warning of
>> "<your app> is an application downloaded from the Internet. Are you
>> sure you want to open it?" to go away, but I still get the warning.
>
> Makes sense, otherwise anyone with a self-signed certificate could bypass that.
>
>> So I'm wondering what kind of things I should expect when I sign my app.
>
>
> Unless you access the keychain, I don't think you get anything visible in Snow Leopard. (And I don't know about Lion.)
IIUC, if your app accesses the keychain, the user will get an annoying warning every time you release an update. Code signing eliminates that warning.
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