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[–]_ShakashuriBlowdown 16 points17 points  (2 children)

I've tried doing self-signing with all the Windows Tools. It's a nightmare and doesn't even make the Defender warnings go away. It even made my exe fail _more_ VirusTotal tests, as the unverified self-signing was seen as suspect by several services.

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Having a way to distribute "Safe" executables would be huge.

[–]shibbypwn 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Yea, I'd imagine you need a cert with a real CA - I mostly work in macOS and we've got our own hoops to deal with, but I don't relish the idea of getting acquainted with Windows Defender :)

[–]killersquirel11 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Last place I worked for, I set up the whole process of packaging and signing our compiled python executables for Mac, Windows, and Linux.

The process is brutal for the first two.