Re: About Digital Signature
From: Pocket von Tilo Wolff# ++ (camote2000_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 05/28/04
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Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 12:58:51 -0500
thanX for your help, was very useful
"Lars-Eric Gisslén" <nowhere@inter.net> wrote in message
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> Wolff,
>
> I hope you bought the VBA/Office signing certificate. If you recieved two
> files, *.SPC and *.PWK then you have got the code signing certificate for
> EXE, DLL, CAT, CAB, ... files
>
> If you have got the correct certificate you can renew the certificate
using
> your order number and Verisign will inform about one month before it's
time
> to renew the certificate. You will however get a new certificate but with
> the same credentials as the old one. The old certificate has expired,
> litterally, and a new certificate has to be issued. This is a very simple
> process and nothing to worry about.
>
> Your macros will not recognize any signing but Word 2000 (and later) will.
> What is of interest is how the computers running your documents with
signed
> macros will react on new documents signed with a renewed certificate. That
> is no problem. If the users has accepted to allways trust signed macros
with
> your old certificate your new certificate will also be accepted so the
user
> will not notice that you have renewed the certificate. However, if you buy
a
> new certificate (not renew) then the users has to accept the new
> certificate.
>
> What is also very important is that you must timestamp your signing. If
you
> don't, your clients will get into trouble when the certificate has
expired.
> To enable timestamping you have to set the registry key:
> HKEY_Current_User\Software\Microsoft\VBA\Security\TimeStampURL
> to: http://timestamp.verisign.com/scripts/timstamp.dll
>
> Regards,
> Lars-Eric
>
>
> "Pocket von Tilo Wolff# ++" <camote2000@hotmail.com> skrev i meddelandet
> news:%239KvLWBREHA.1548@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> > Hi, two questions
> >
> > I have a "Code Signing" type certificate I bought at Verisign
> >
> > The "Code Signing" type certificates can be updated without requesting a
> > brand new one?
> >
> > If it can be done, does my code (some Word's macros) recognize the new
> > certificate or it is necessary to specify the certificate again?
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >
>
>
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