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digitally signed update [message #291028]

Tue, 06 September 2005 11:09

Eclipse User

We are using the update mechanism in Eclipse and would like to get a digital
certificate (Verisign?) so that features downloaded to the user's machine
won't display the unsigned warning. Is there any documentation/articles
that explain how to obtain and install the certificate?

thanks

Re: digitally signed update [message #291033 is a reply to message #291028]

Tue, 06 September 2005 11:30

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: sunil_kamath.nohotspammail.com

"Neil Goldsmith" <neilg@avaya.com> wrote in message
news:dfkb9b$9br$1@news.eclipse.org...
> We are using the update mechanism in Eclipse and would like to get a
> digital certificate (Verisign?) so that features downloaded to the user's
> machine won't display the unsigned warning. Is there any
> documentation/articles that explain how to obtain and install the
> certificate?
>
I found this very useful:
http://www.jot.fm/issues/issue_2004_11/column6

Oh, btw, after digitally signing your plugin, the users won't get the
unsigned warning anymore- now they will get a signed warning :-)
---
Sunil

Re: digitally signed update [message #291043 is a reply to message #291033]

Tue, 06 September 2005 13:25

Eclipse User

Great! Thanks for the link, that was helpful.

Do you know how the certificate is then embedded into the .jar?

"Sunil Kamath" <sunil_kamath@nohotspammail.com> wrote in message
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>
> "Neil Goldsmith" <neilg@avaya.com> wrote in message
> news:dfkb9b$9br$1@news.eclipse.org...
>> We are using the update mechanism in Eclipse and would like to get a
>> digital certificate (Verisign?) so that features downloaded to the user's
>> machine won't display the unsigned warning. Is there any
>> documentation/articles that explain how to obtain and install the
>> certificate?
>>
> I found this very useful:
> http://www.jot.fm/issues/issue_2004_11/column6
>
> Oh, btw, after digitally signing your plugin, the users won't get the
> unsigned warning anymore- now they will get a signed warning :-)
> ---
> Sunil
>

Re: digitally signed update [message #291050 is a reply to message #291043]

Tue, 06 September 2005 14:32

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: sunil_kamath.nohotspammail.com

"Neil Goldsmith" <neilg@avaya.com> wrote in message
news:dfkj74$lbl$1@news.eclipse.org...
> Great! Thanks for the link, that was helpful.
>
> Do you know how the certificate is then embedded into the .jar?
>
Download my plugin :-)
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=116143 &package_id=149946&release_id=351150

You can use it to digitally sign any jar file.
Alternately, the Eclipse plugin/feature export wizards allows you to specify
a keystore for signing the jar.
---
Sunil

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