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WHQL signing confusion
Miles Mi...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public dotnet framework Hi, I am struggling to work out how to digitally sign exe files using .Net 2.0. This must be programmatic, not the manual way and will be built in to an existing .Net application. I am trying to use System.Security.Cryptography.

verified executable kernel modification committed
... other agencies, and the internal Company team in translating client business goals into an integrated marketing strategy and developing executable tactics that map to all web page designs prior to signing off on outputs circulating for internal or client review, includes a review just prior to site launch.

MS VC++ .NET (2002): Executable file for Debugging Session
Or use public/private key signing, and code the public keys into the kernel. Oh that will be nice. Any idea how often some of these executables run? As for signing, my thought was you'd only need to look at the signing of a hash when it's loaded. ie at boot. Also, I think it'd make sense to sign a bunch of the

Credit Card Phishing with executable download
Currently we have no problems with the pKI infrastructure other than we can not seem to get the user to sign a copy of the transactional data with their private key. Or at least, he can be sure of that to the same extent that he can be sure you haven't messed with the Netscape executable. But are you really,

Script signing
And, of course, there si Article 19 of the treaty: "Article 19 Formulation of reservations A State may, when signing, ratifying, accepting, approving or acceding to a treaty, formulate a reservation unless: (a) the reservation is prohibited by the treaty; (b) the treaty provides that only specified reservations,

US-NY: New York-Art Director
yahoo.co.uk> wrote: Signing something shouldn't increase its size. The signature is something (the PK encryption of a hash of the original) which accompanies the original, it does not modify Name of the file containing the encoded signing certificate. 2.)The file containing the private key of the publisher. 3.

Code signing - recommended cerificate provider?
The executable can be run from a share, but the accompanied DLL, certadm.dll needs to be copied and registered using the regsvr32 command. Once this is done, the certificate can be loaded using the following command (without the single quotes): ' <Location of CERTUTIL>\CERTUTIL -user -addstore "<Name of store (for

Management of code signing digital IDs and pvk files
Andrew van der Stock a...@greebo.net fa netbsd tech kern Signing executables is a particularly good idea. In fact, Microsoft do now this for their drivers and some executables under This would be hashed, so that the loader can check quickly that any given executable has an appropriately trusted full certificate.

signing off
This is not entirely true - what if I am not reachable by the lawyers - remember, most of the worlds population is in no way reachable by american lawyers... It certainly isn't perfect (nothing is), but IMHO, it is a reasonable attempt to ensure the _app_ is from who it says it is. Signing executable content is a

signing a exe
M a...@b.com microsoft public vc mfc Buy an Authenticode Code Signing Cert, and use SignCode.exe. You can get a cert from Verisign or others (Verisign's are overpriced), "z f" <d...@send.mails> wrote in message news:euob%23q6AGHA.532@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl... how can i add digital signature to an executable? TIA.

arbitrary, unsigned, and executable
We used to create and sign the setup.exe's manually (installshield), but the volume is increasing. It all works fine except for the security warning and we cannot change the users PC config as they are in different territories. Thanks, Miles. "Alvin Bruney [MVP]" wrote: Out of curiosity, why is this a requirement?

Digitally signed Perl executable not working.
riki see_my_home@page microsoft public smartphone developer Lisa Pearlson wrote: doesn't that cause CRC issues of some kind that I thought was part of a binary executable? I'm not to familiar with the PE format, but i used to append data on .exe files and didn't have any issues, so i don't think there is CRC

r113 - in trunk: . java/com/xerox/amazonws/common ...
Does anybody know whether I can sign a script using a certificate generated by the selfcert.exe utility that comes with Office? I've tried and it doesn't work although I think it should. If it shouldn't work, then why can I sign an executable suing the same certificate. Works for me... Here's a script I use as a

applet signing library
Hi Experts: I know the purpose of signing an executable (say, by VeriSign) is to make it more securer. But can anyone explain why ? If I use my private key to sign an executable, I guess the content of the executable is changed ? Is it just the exe file header change? What if some hacker exam the binary header and

Package signing tools
Maybe Phil will get interested enough that he will develop a utility that can do the "code signing"? Vista Certification is not concerned with your What is the value of a "code signed" PowerBuilder generated executable if PowerBuilder itself (the tool that is used to produce the executable) will NOT be Windows

[BUG] Segfault in dgst signing with rsa ...
Dan Mitchell djmitche...@yahoo.com microsoft public security crypto "Michel Gallant" <neut...@istar.ca> wrote in news:ucltWrPmFHA.3256@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl: So, my question is, is it possible to do the signing at download time rather than at compile time? Yes, that is possible. Easiest way is using asp with COM

High Speed Internet Server
The CCC demonstrated its malicious executable code running on Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0, though they could just as easily have demonstrated a similar attack on By signing code, a developer can take advantage of these rich services while giving users the authentication and integrity safeguards they need.

Self-signing applications
An attacker can easily take an executable, modify it, and sign it. A signed executable means nothing without an independent route of trust. If you verify the certificate on the executable using the same route as you had to get the executable (eg you fetch them both from a web site), you are as unprotected as if the

size of executables?
If I give people executable assembly, nothing prevents the attacker to change it, recompile from IL and give it to others. Who is supposed to check if the strong The executable assembly is not referenced by anything else. And library assembly is referenced by executable assemblies which also can be re-built.

ActiveX Hijinks, was Re: Summary of OS Wars (My Opinion)
If an executable is trusted and it calls into an untrusted dll, that dll would get to run trusted... very very bad for security. The easiest way to un-sign something is just to recompile it. What tool did you use to sign your own binaries? Just repeat that process for the OpenNETCF DLLs. Or, since OpenNETCF gives