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[โ€“] 4 points 7 months ago (1 child)

Since you're still a Windows user at least for now, and assuming that you're planning on continuing to be open-source, I can recommend Certum for this. https://shop.certum.eu/open-source-code-signing.html

I gave up trying to initialize the USB thingy using Linux (I tried regular Arch [btw] and an Ubuntu distrobox IIRC), but once I got through the initial steps using Windows, I was able to sign ongoing builds with Linux just fine. It took a LOT of trial and error since there seem to be very few people who simultaneously

  • pathologically dislike using Windows regularly
  • still want to make it easier for people on Windows to minimize Windows Defender complaints when running software that they build
  • have the motivation and resolve to send a lot of PII to one of a handful of companies whose longtime business model is based around reputation and trust in order to get a usable certificate
  • are stubborn enough to go out of their way to still figure out how to do a subset of this stuff on Linux
  • are capable of actually succeeding at that, and
  • are willing to show how they did it in a way that should be reasonably easy enough to understand and adapt to your situation

I didn't renew after my first year - I switched from publishing an executable to publishing it on the web, so I no longer had a need for it - so I don't know how things have changed (if at all). Most of my information came from eventually stumbling upon this wiki page for a Ruby-based tool where they figured out the last bits I needed to get it to work.

  • It also has instructions for initializing the USB thingy on Linux too, so if I were to renew, I'd give that a fair shot... but seeing "icedtea" and a link to a web application that no longer resolves, I'd still only recommend it if you can use a Windows machine once a year.
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