Code signing certificate for KDE?

Boudewijn Rempt boud at valdyas.org
Fri Aug 18 07:54:44 BST 2017


yn Thu, 17 Aug 2017, Albert Astals Cid wrote:

> El dijous, 17 d’agost de 2017, a les 22:57:47 CEST, Boudewijn Rempt va 
> escriure:
> > On Thu, 17 Aug 2017, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> > > El dimecres, 16 d’agost de 2017, a les 11:40:33 CEST, Boudewijn Rempt va
> > > 
> > > escriure:
> > > > Here's yet another topic: for the past year, I've been signing Krita
> > > > for Windows with a certificate from certum.eu. These certificates are
> > > > personal, so krita gets signed by "open source developer boudewijn
> > > > rempt".
> > > > 
> > > > That's not ideal,
> > > 
> > > What is the downside?
> > > 
> > > I mean does "open source developer boudewijn rempt" show up somewhere in
> > > the UI?
> > 
> > Yes, it's what windows shows when installing the application.
> 
> Ok, then i guess yes, we should get one.
> 
> What kind of certificate is needed?

Something lke this: https://www.digicert.com/code-signing/ (though there are
many companies that sell them, and it might be more convenient to pick a 
German one).


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Boudewijn Rempt | http://www.krita.org, http://www.valdyas.org


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