[wix-users] Code signing the burn bootstrapper.

[Farrukh Waheed]

Once I wrote a blog entry. Hope it helps:
https://devdare.blogspot.com/2014/03/signing-problem-with-wix-based.html

On 28 March 2017 at 21:02, Hoover, Jacob <Jacob.Hoover at greenheck.com> wrote:

> Take a look at the SignBundle/SignBundleEngine MSBuild targets.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf
> Of Gerhard Matzen
> Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2017 6:34 AM
> To: WiX Toolset Users Mailing List <wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org>
> Subject: Re: [wix-users] Code signing the burn bootstrapper.
>
> You can't just sign the bundle itself.  You must sign both the burn.exe
> engine and the bundle.
>
> http://wixtoolset.org/documentation/manual/v3/overview/insignia.html
>
> I think you can still use whatever tool that you want for the signing, but
> you need to split apart the bundle using insignia and sign the internals as
> well as the bundle itself.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf
> Of Steve De George
> Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2017 4:19 AM
> To: wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org
> Subject: [wix-users] Code signing the burn bootstrapper.
>
> Hi all.
>
>
> I have my boostrapper with MSI working great and have went onto code
> signing them. In the past I have used kSignCMD.exe from www.comodo.com<
> http://www.comodo.com> and this does indeed sign everything. I sign the
> EXE's, the MSI and Burn boot strapper and by going to the  Properties,
> details I see everything is signed. The boot strapper is marked as signed.
>
>
> Now here is the issue. If I sign the boot strapper  then when installing
> it prompts me with a find file dialog to locate the internal MSI.
>
>
> If I DO NOT sign the boot strapper it all works fine. I have been Googling
> this for a couple of hours and am confused.
>
>
> Any tips or tricks for this?
>
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> Steve De George - Pivotal Z / NextGen Software, Inc.
> 253-656-4061
> www.pivotalz.com<http://www.pivotalz.com/>
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