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Fair points. I haven't used Windows since XP so my information is a bit dated but it does look like they've made some progress in this arena. Putty is from a ti
by c22 11y ago
Fair points. I haven't used Windows since XP so my information is a bit dated but it does look like they've made some progress in this arena. Putty is from a time where most windows software was installed from random .exes on the internet, though. I suspect due to the age of the win32 ecosystem much software still is installed this way in Windows environments.
- acqq 11y agoYou're right that a lot of Windows executables and installers are still unsigned. The check of the signature is still something that plain user wouldn't know how to do. The only place where Windows rally enforces the signatures are 64-bit drivers. Another important question is: even if there is a valid signature, how can the user know if the signer of the downloaded file is really the expected author?