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Sign Windows Release

Gregory Schier·3 years ago
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Microsoft has made it very difficult to sign code these days, requiring HSM (hardware security module) to do so. The major clouds are currently working on providing easy-to-use tools for this, so hopefully it will be easier soon.

I'm holding off on this for now, unless it becomes a priority for many users.


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Gregory SchierOP

The Windows release of Yaak is not currently signed, so you'll have to "Run Anyway" for now.

masbo

Successfully installed using your instructions. Thanks

Gregory SchierOP
masbo

Thanks a bunch for the info and support!

arek

Having to “Run anyway” it caused cybersecurity department in my company to come to me and tell me do delete yaak entirely from my pc… And here I wished to finally have some nice api client, not the old rusty postman :<

Gregory SchierOP

I’ve just incorporated Mountain Loop Labs Inc in Canada, so can now apply for an EV signing certificate. I just kicked off the process to day so hopefully this will be complete in a week or two

Gregory SchierOP

It seems like Azure Trusted Signing is a new thing that might work. There’s some discussion on using this with Tauri so I’m going to give it a try: https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri/issues/9578

arek

That’s great news! Does it mean that next release will be signed? ^^

Gregory SchierOP

Hopefully! I’m still waiting to get my company verified for signing so we’ll see how long that takes

arek

that's good news! I already got scolded 3 times by the security dpt for trying to install different versions of yaak 🤣

Gregory SchierOP

I just release 2024.13.0-beta.1 which is signed! Can y’all give it a try and let me know if it works? https://yaak.app/blog/2024.13.0-beta.1

arek

I just installed the beta version with no “windows protected your pc” warning 💜

Gregory SchierOP

That’s great news! 🥂

Gregory SchierOP

I have gone ahead and replaced the current 2024.12.1 binary with a signed version. Everything seems to be working great but let me know if you run into issues.

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