Regarding Certification and Signing

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Wed, 2007-10-24 02:28
desika
Joined: 2006-09-27
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Hi,

I am now developing applications for series 60 3rd Edition,before developing the applications i have downloaded some of the 3rd edition applications and tested .The question now is there are some SIS files which are working fine on all 3rd Editon mobiles without any problem like certificate expired or usigned application etc.

So than i have gone through all the documentaion available on Signing and certification and came to a conclusion that for our normal testing we can go for a self certification and if we want for 100 IMEI s we need to go for a publiser ID and Developer Certificate.

Even though we are having developer certificate and Publisher ID ,we need to sign the SIS file individually,so now my question is

"I want to Sign my SIS file only once and it should be able to work on all mobiles for all different IMEIs,for this to happen what are the things i need to do"

Thanks&Regards

Desika

Wed, 2007-10-24 10:42
Symbian_Neil
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Joined: 2006-10-12
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Re: Regarding Certification and Signing

i have downloaded some of the 3rd edition applications and tested .The question now is there are some SIS files which are working fine on all 3rd Editon mobiles without any problem like certificate expired or usigned application etc.

Thats because the SIS files that you downloaded were signed.

So than i have gone through all the documentaion available on Signing and certification and came to a conclusion that for our normal testing we can go for a self certification and if we want for 100 IMEI s we need to go for a publiser ID and Developer Certificate.

you are right and if you are a developer its advisable to go in for something like a 'Developers Certificate'

Even though we are having developer certificate and Publisher ID ,we need to sign the SIS file individually

Since a developers certificate is meant for testing during development, its not a big overhead comparitively, as if you are using an IDE, you just have to set the path to the certificate and key once and the rest it takes care of.

I want to Sign my SIS file only once and it should be able to work on all mobiles for all different IMEIs,for this to happen what are the things i need to do"

If you mean 'all' IMEI's, then Symbian signing is the only way AFAIK!!

 
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