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From: Ismail Donmez <ismail@i10z.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Latest setup.exe not code-signed?
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2016 10:11:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFo71_4-TzfjbDK_JdOya7c-Nhtv9DfuFtgSaT2AEf=FDShpvw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGZiy71hduc-LZvLvqXWNzYpN7foKrvobVP5q3S=KeagukQAsg@mail.gmail.com>

Hello,

On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 2:58 AM, Kal Sze <swordangel@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> It looks like the new setup-x86_64.exe is not code-signed? Is that on
> purpose? IIRC, the previous versions were code-signed. Do we now only
> rely on the .sig signature file to verify it?

It was never code signed and the reasons for this has been discussed
before. You can search the list for the reasons.

Regards,
ismail

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-12-15 10:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-12-15  1:59 Kal Sze
2016-12-15 10:11 ` Ismail Donmez [this message]
2016-12-15 13:35 ` Andrey Repin

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