Support Windows PE Executable signature

globaleaks / APAF

Anonymous Python Application Framework

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Support Windows PE Executable signature #28

Open fpietrosanti opened 12 years ago

fpietrosanti commented 12 years ago

This Ticket for the implementation of support in APAF, to document and facilitate the signing of resulting PE executable with a X509v3 digital certificate.

The Signing verification must work on:

Windows XP SP3
Windows Vista
Windows 7
Windows 8

cc @hellais @mmaker @mogui

fpietrosanti commented 12 years ago

It seems a non easy issue for py2exe:

http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.py2exe/4320
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7198431/outputed-py2exe-exe-wont-run-only-when-signed-importerror
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9586796/digitally-signing-a-cxfreeze-windows-executable

fpietrosanti commented 12 years ago

As noted by Rigel, this ticket may conflict with #21 and it may require some serious hacking to avoid the issues of timestamp variation applied by signing process.

fpietrosanti commented 12 years ago

Pyinstaller support Digital Signature of .exe generated http://www.pyinstaller.org/wiki/Features/WindowsCodeSigning