Friday, March 30, 2007

Cheap Code Signing with Your Thawte Freemail Certificate

As I am always loosing this, I better write it down.

There is nice way how to sign your jars using Thawte Freemail Certificate. I think it is fine for code given out for free.


<signjar keystore="your_keystore.p12"
storetype="pkcs12"
alias="your_alias"
storepass="secret">
<fileset dir="${client.deploy.dir}/lib">
<include name="**/*" />
</fileset>
</signjar>


Step by step guide:
  1. Ask Thawte for your certificate.
  2. Download it to your Firefox.
  3. Choose Edit/Preferences/Encryption/View Certificates/<select>/Backup (use PKCS12)
  4. If you don't know your alias use this to list it:
    keytool -list -storetype pkcs12 -keystore your_keystore.p12
Enjoy!

P.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Well said.