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Or get a free Let's Encrypt cert as many orgs do.

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On 2025-05-04 04:40, James Hanley via Cygwin wrote:
> Cygwin as an organization can act as your own CA and leave it up to IT organizations to add the Cygwin public TA cert to the CA trust store.
> -Jim
> 
>> On May 3, 2025, at 3:43 PM, Jeremy Drake via Cygwin <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, 3 May 2025, Brian Inglis via Cygwin wrote:
>>
>>>> On 2025-05-03 12:21, Roland Mainz via Cygwin wrote:
>>>> Is it somehow possible that the CI+Release binaries (*.exe, *.dll) can
>>>> be signed with signtool
>>>> (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/seccrypto/signtool)?
>>>
>>> No - would break the Cygwin licence terms unless MS releases source!
>>
>> Huh?!?
>>
>>> Cygwin supports osslsigncode:
>>>
>>>     https://cygwin.com/packages/summary/osslsigncode-src.html
>>>
>>> OpenSSL-based Authenticode signing and timestamping tool
>>>
>>> Platform-independent tool for Authenticode signing of PE(EXE/SYS/DLL/etc), CAB
>>> and MSI files. It also supports timestamping (Authenticode and RFC3161).
>>>
>>> That would require our volunteers to find and spend more of their free time to
>>> integrate the tool into the package build processes, and it would not be
>>> available until the volunteers find more of their free time once the next
>>> release of each upstream package becomes available.
>>
>> It would also require getting an X.509 code signing certificate from a
>> Microsoft-blessed authority.  AFAIK, these are not free.  I do remember
>> investigating a service for free signing of open-source binaries (I
>> believe Vim.org uses it for its Windows binaries), but the requirements
>> for integrating with the build automation (so they could verify that
>> binaries weren't tampered with during build) was too onerous for MSYS2 to
>> consider at the time.

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