Wednesday, November 11, 2015

Code signing an executable or installation package

If you want to sign your installation packages on Windows, you will need the tool called SignTool that ships with the Windows SDK.

You can find more information about how to use SignTool here:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa387764%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/8s9b9yaz%28v=vs.110%29.aspx

This article has some good examples on using SignTool to sign a file: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa388170%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

If you want to learn how to generate your own Code Signing Certificate using makecert.exe, you should definitely check out this article: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/winsdk/archive/2009/11/13/steps-to-sign-a-file-using-signtool-exe.aspx

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