Apple signing woes
wheybags

Perhaps I can assist? I've raised this issue a few times in recent months as even pre-Catalina I strenuously avoid running unsigned software. I'm not a professional developer, but I dabble and am willing to test...

To test, I grabbed the .app of 0.17.69, signed it ...

The newest version of macOS, "Catalina," will be released this month.

Per the below Apple developer reminder, Catalina apps need to be notarized for security. Now that 0.17 is stable, is it going to be submitted to Apple for notarization?

To further protect users on macOS Catalina, we’re working ...

I appreciate the update. if I'm not mistaken, I think you've been looking for a macOS developer for a while? I hope you find someone that you like soon.

Hi there,

I just wanted to nudge this and see if this might make it in for 0.17 stable? It's really quite easy to do. The most time consuming part is signing up as an Apple developer, but once that's done it should be cake to implement.

Hello! Congratulations on the impending release of 0.17.

I wanted to check in and see whether signed binaries was still the plan for 0.17 (for macOS and Windows?)

See:
https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?t=55063

and

https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?t=62112

Thanks!


Sorry ...

Hello! Congratulations on the impending release of 0.17.

I wanted to check in and see whether signed binaries was still the plan for 0.17 (for macOS and Windows?)

See:
viewtopic.php?t=55063

and

viewtopic.php?t=62112

Thanks!

Good news that 0.17 will be released as an interim patch in January, 2019.

I just wanted to confirm that the digital signing of the Mac (and Windows) binaries that was planned for 0.17 is still planned for the January release? @HanziQ and @posila indicated in this thread that this was planned for 0 ...

This news sound like we can await 0.17 in the near future.

I would really appreciate that.

I certainly hope so as I'm dying to play, but I'm not optimistic about "near future." This line stuck out to me in the blog post and made me think I should manage my expectations of when to expect 0.17 ...

You dont add any security by only running apps from identified developers... just btw.

More important is "what" from "where".

Btw, that's not accurate IMHO. Digitally signing apps is one layer in a security model. It doesn't address all threats, but it does address some. I'm not familiar with ...

HanziQ wrote:I've been meaning to fix this for a long time, even the full game is not signed. I will add this for 0.17.

Thank you! I look forward to trying 0.17 with this inclusion when it ships. Do you still expect it to ship before year-end?

[Note: also confirmed with the 0.16.36 demo for macOS.]

For some reason the demos are not signed with an Apple Developer ID, and thus throw a security error when I go to open them. See attached file for a screen shot of the error, and see this Apple site for more details on Developer ID: https ...