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Links & Listings

12 August, 2007 (23:17) | Uncategorized

CopySafe
Linkback from the guys at www.copysafe.net, they were one of the first to try out XPISigner and helped squash the early bugs. Much appreciated!
DMOZ
It took about three months but now XPISigner is listed on the
Open Directory Project (DMOZ)
http://www.dmoz.org/Bookmarks/D/development/Firefox/Add-ons/Development/

Links & Listings

12 August, 2007 (23:17) | Uncategorized

CopySafe
Linkback from the guys at www.copysafe.net, they were one of the first to try out XPISigner and helped squash the early bugs. Much appreciated!
DMOZ
It took about three months but now XPISigner is listed on the
Open Directory Project (DMOZ)
http://www.dmoz.org/Bookmarks/D/development/Firefox/Add-ons/Development/

XPISigner v 1.5 released

8 August, 2007 (22:53) | xpi

Now available from the download page.

Updated the readme.txt in the zip to the latest version.
Some VM’s displayed FileNotFound exceptions when the META-INF folder didn’t exist. Added explicit checks and create folders as required.
Removed some debugging statements e.g., “bc” from the output.
When running from a folder other than the baseDir the value of baseDir needed to [...]

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 [...]

Extension signing with XPISigner

23 April, 2007 (22:41) | firefox, signtool, xpi

A random sampling of the extensions available on addons.mozilla.org shows that the majority of extensions available for download are unsigned. The only signed extension found in the search was the Google Toolbar.
The use of unsigned extensions encourages the end user to ignore the Unsigned warning in the corner.

(I’m not picking on Adblock specifically, it was [...]