How do I add a digital signature to a exe?

[Bert]

Title says it all. I get asked this when I run a script of mine.

[Tiger]

with resource hacker.

[Bert]

Tried it, didn't work...

[mrbond007]

there are programs that can do this but they cost money here's one

Edit : i don't know any free ones

[Bert]

I be poor, but proud....can't afford the pay ones.

[Zedna]

Jon should know that because Autoit3.exe is digitally signed.

[Jon]

signtool.exe. Freebie from MS.

[Bert]

I saw this, but it looked as it was for JS files. I wasn't sure it would work for a exe. Can you point me in the direction of documentation on it?

[Jon]

You can sign all sorts of things - the certificate type determines what you can sign. You need an authenticode cert for signing exes.

I just run "signtool.exe signwizard", then select the cert (which must be installed in IE) then the exe.

[Bert]

I still need to buy a cert though..right?

[Jon]

I still need to buy a cert though..right?

Yeah. You can "self sign" but that's only really useful for testing as it will still come up as "untrusted" for everyone else.

[Jon]

And it's not cheap!

http://www.globalsign.com/digital_certific...tsign/index.htm

[Bert]

[Jon]

Yeah, The donations didn't quite cover that But it's only every few years and it's totally worth it to get AutoIt signed.

[Fossil Rock]

Here's one that doesn't seem toooooo expensive.... http://www.ksoftware.net/code_signing.html

Also, you may want to look at this .... http://www.averina.com/

[Jon]

Here's one that doesn't seem toooooo expensive.... http://www.ksoftware.net/code_signing.html

Also, you may want to look at this .... http://www.averina.com/

They don't seem to be in the list of trusted CAs in Windows so you'd probably need to click a prompt to say you trust the CA first.