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Signing a Firefox plug-in

9 October, 2007 (23:57) | codesigning, faq, signtool, xpi

Laurent brought this up recently in the comments on the XPISigner download page. He ran into an issue signing his Firefox Linux plug-in with XPISigner. Some files were no longer executable when the XPI was deployed.
This is a ‘feature’ of java’s cross-platform underpinnings, since not all platforms use file-system metadata to flag files as executable.
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InvalidKeyException: Illegal key size issue

3 August, 2007 (22:49) | faq, firefox, signtool, xpi

When running XPISigner with a PFX generated from SPC & PVK files you may run into the following error…
“unwrapping private key - java.security.InvalidKeyException: Illegal key size”
This may have two causes:

The unlimited strength policy files are not installed in your %JAVA_HOME%/jre/lib/security folder.
The PFX that was generated is not well formed. See below for instructions on how to export [...]