Hashes and Code-Signing

I’ve written a few articles about using Authenticode to sign your code to help prevent attacks, increase user confidence, and reduce interference from security software like Windows SmartScreen. You can read the overview, discussion of code-signing tokens, and “tricks” you can use to shoot yourself in the foot by adding data to a file withoutContinue reading “Hashes and Code-Signing”

Authenticode and ClickOnce

On my old IEInternals blog, I posted a fair bit about using Authenticode to sign your programs so that their origins could be identified and to avoid triggering warnings from SmartScreen. My last post on that blog before Microsoft took it away was about using a hardware token to improve security of your certificate’s privateContinue reading “Authenticode and ClickOnce”