Authenticode Digital Signatures

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Signing your code with a Digital Signature assures your customers that the presentation really comes from you and hasn't been altered or corrupted since it was created and signed. A Digital Signature serves as virtual "shrinkwrap" for your presentation. After you sign your presentation, if it is tampered with in any way, the Digital Signature will break and alert customers that the presentation has been altered and is not trustworthy.

Beginning with the Microsoft XP Operating System with Service Pack 2 installed, if your customer downloads and tries to run your presentation and you have not digitally signed it then he will get a warning... 

which may well frighten your potential customer enough to stop him running your presentation. However, if you sign your presentation with a Digital Signature your customer instead gets a dialog box confirming who the publisher was...

and if he clicks on the name of the publisher he will get further information about the publisher and confirmation that the Digital Signature is valid.

The WebCompiler Project Manager can automatically sign your code after compilation. To do so you will need your own Digital Certificate from a Certificate Issuing Authority, and also a code signing tool from Microsoft.

For more details about where to get your Digital Certificate, the code signing tool, and a step by step guide to signing your presentation, click here.