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The Apple security feature I hate the most is notarization. I get the point of it, but Apple’s execution of it is poor. Sometimes it takes 10+ mins to notarize
by dabinat 5y ago
The Apple security feature I hate the most is notarization. I get the point of it, but Apple’s execution of it is poor. Sometimes it takes 10+ mins to notarize an app and the service regularly returns random failures.
My software has a feature where you can package certain files into a basic no-frills installer. This is a minor feature that pre-dates notarization in a much bigger suite of tools and it causes a lot of issues because users contact tech support every time Apple’s notarization service goes down (which is often). At this point I’m considering just removing the whole feature from the suite.
- gjsman-1000 5y agoApple did a talk recently about how notarization will be easier with MacOS 12. Might help.
- judge2020 5y ago> users contact tech support every time Apple’s notarization service goes down (which is often). Isn't notarization stapling supposed to prevent this? Or does it do a OSCP/"is this signature still good" check on every launch?
- NegativeLatency 5y agoSounds like OPs app is calling the notarization APIs directly to notarize user created installers
- dabinat 5y agoYes, it notarizes using the end-user’s Apple ID.