Hour 22 Signing AIR Applications

In this hour, you’ll learn

    • About certificate authorities

    • Obtaining a Certificate

    • Leveraging a Publisher Identifier

    • Using a Timestamping Server

Meet the Certificate Authorities

Previous hours had at least a passing mention of digital certificates. At the risk of sounding like a broken record, I must say the importance of digitally signing your AIR applications can’t be minimized because AIR applications continue to spread onto end users’ desktops.

Watch Out!

An .air file cannot be created without digitally signing the application, at a bare minimum, with a self-signed certificate.

During the initial dialog of an AIR application’s installation, if it does not have ...

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