[Bf-committers] Fwd: Vendor Approval Issue

[Martijn Berger]

Hi all,

Technically this is not a challenge. The main difficulty is getting our
hands on a key that we can use to sign in a way that is trusted by default.
This usually costs a few hundred euro's a year for a cert. There seems to
be a free way to get this done ->
https://www.certum.eu/certum/cert,offer_en_open_source_cs.xml as a
possibility.
I will look into this but really would like feedback from people who have
already done this or know of open source projects that currently do sign
their installer and exe's

Martijn

On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 3:12 PM, Ton Roosendaal <ton at blender.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> For OS X we sign the binary using our Apple developer account.
> It seems there's a similar system for Windows exes too.
> Please advice!
>
> (See mail below).
>
> -Ton-
>
> --------------------------------------------------------
> Ton Roosendaal  -  ton at blender.org   -   www.blender.org
> Chairman Blender Foundation - Producer Blender Institute
> Entrepotdok 57A  -  1018AD Amsterdam  -  The Netherlands
>
>
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> > Subject: Vendor Approval Issue
> > Date: 6 November, 2014 14:17:11 CET
> > To: foundation at blender.org
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > I have a  generic issue that needs addressing so I have contacted
> > this email address in the hope that you can redirect it
> > appropriately.
> >
> > I use Comodo Internet Security Premium which includes a Defense
> > Plus element for monitoring running processes. Whilst I have
> > approved Blender as a process it refuses to recognise the Vendor as
> > the .exe file is not signed and has no developer information so it
> > will not allow me to add it to the approved list and keeps flagging
> > it every time I launch Blender.
> >
> > I am bringing this to your attention as it is annoying and I am
> > sure other users are experiencing the same issue and it could be
> > easily resolved but that can only be done by the development team.
> >
> > Trusted Vendors can sign up here to be whitelisted:
> >
> > http://internetsecurity.comodo.com/trustedvendor/signup.php
> >
> > Many thanks
> >
> > Mark
> >
>
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