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Sign Your Installers Externally on Windows (Digital Signatures)

Summary

InstallAnywhere 2012 and below require you to digitally sign externally.

Synopsis

InstallAnywhere introduced built-in support for signing Windows installers with InstallAnywhere 2013. Previous to that version, installers must be signed manually.



Discussion

The current tool for signing on Windows is SignTool: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/SecCrypto/signtool

In its simplest form, SignTool can be used to sign an installer using the best available certificate using:
signtool sign /a MyFile.exe


Additional Information

SignCode was the previous iteration of this tool which has since been deprecated. The following information is included for legacy reference.

???????In order to digitally sign an installer, three things are necessary: signcode.exe, a .pvk file and a .spk file. Signcode.exe is the actual executable for the utility that does the signing. The .pvk is the private key file and the .spc file is the actual certificate file.

Signcode has a GUI mode, but can also run from the command-line.

The command can be as simple as the following:

signcode /spc cert.spc /v privatekey.pvk "myApp.exe"
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Sign Your Installers Externally on Windows (Digital Signatures)