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Conveyor can solve that. It's a packaging tool that amongst other things can sign Windows binaries and packages from macOS and Linux, including with the USB key
by mike_hearn 4y ago
Conveyor can solve that. It's a packaging tool that amongst other things can sign Windows binaries and packages from macOS and Linux, including with the USB key fobs you use with EV certificates. The UX is also better than standard signing tools - you configure it with a simple config file, it can show progress bars on the console etc. There's a video on the website.
https://hydraulic.software/ https://hydraulic.software/
EV certificates tend to be quite trusted by AV vendors, even if you're new and never had any downloads before, because you have to go through more validation. OV certificates are cheaper and less work to get but start out with neutral trust, so your early downloads will get warnings that the binaries aren't downloaded very often.
The sort of AV problem is unfortunately quite common on Windows, partly because a lot of devs and especially the sort of UNIX-oriented devs that write Nim and Go programs simply won't sign their software. It's the nature of modern platforms: you either sign your software and build up reputation, like with sending email, or you don't and end up being hit by the full brunt of heuristic guessing (or on macOS, refusal to run at all without workarounds). Not signing on Windows is a bit like sending email without SPF or DKIM, it's going to land you in the spam folder a lot.
- e40 4y agoThanks. When our current solution expires, I will look at this solution.