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Bug 88441

Summary:	Digital signatures on installer executables
Product:	installer	Reporter:	brantgurga <brantgurga>
Component:	NBI	Assignee:	Ondrej Vrabec <ovrabec>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	blocker	CC:	malfunction84
Priority:	P3
Version:	6.x
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Issue Type:	ENHANCEMENT	Exception Reporter:

Description brantgurga 2006-11-01 16:55:20 UTC

The installer executables for Windows should be digitally signed. Digital 
signatures will help ensure both integrity of the download and authenticity of 
the download.

Comment 1 Kirill Sorokin 2006-11-01 17:06:30 UTC

Taking this as an enhancement request for 6.0.

Comment 2 dlipin 2006-12-08 12:22:31 UTC

Just a note for future.
The process and some details of digital signing are described at the MSDN 
article and at some other locations:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/security/authcode/signing.asp
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q269395
http://oszone.net/3979_5 (in russian)

Comment 3 malfunction84 2011-02-10 20:46:10 UTC

Digital signatures on all executables would also allow windows Group Policy to be configured to allow users to install and update to future versions of NetBeans without administrator intervention.

Comment 4 Antonin Nebuzelsky 2011-05-04 14:54:34 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 197839 ***