Hi Tim,

 

There are no current plans to add this functionality to PerlApp (and the other deployment to
ols).  The only tool that can do this
right now is plc.exe from PerlNET because it can use the signing functionality of the .NET F
ramework to do the work.

 

The standard signtool.exe/signcode.exe utilities are only available when you install the Win
dows Platform SDK and are not
redistributable.

 

It looks like most up-to-date machines nowadays have CAPICOM.dll installed though, so maybe 
we could add this feature and only have
it operational when the cryptography APIs are already installed on the machine.

 

I'll add an enhancement request to the PDK bug database for this.

 

Cheers,

-Jan

 

From: pdk-bounces@[...].com [mailto:pdk-bounces@[...].com] On Behalf Of Tim Scott
Sent: January 3, 2008 9:02 AM
To: pdk@[...].com
Subject: Q: PerlApp to incorporate Digital Signature capabilities

 

Hi,

 

Does anyone know if there are plans for PerlApp to include the ability to incorporate a Wind
ows friendly digital signature in the
resulting executable?

 

I saw the previous post that referred the reader to:

    http://www.windowsecurity.com/articles/Code-Signing.html

 

but it struck me as something that must surely need to be done by PerlApp.

 

Maybe an additional command line option:

    -sign {privatekeyfilename}

 

Comments welcome.

 

Thanks,

Tim