Is it possible for the developers to sign the Windows installer?

Software Siril
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My team is attempting to install and use Siril (Windows version) for night skies imagery processing. We are working with our IT department to unblock the software and get it approved, but IT has informed us we will not be able to use this software unless it is signed.

Would the development team consider including a self-signing certificate in the next Windows release? This might make widespread access of Siril more straightforward and allow it to bypass flags that could otherwise make it prohibited for certain higher security corporate and government settings.

For further clarification, if the Siril exe were signed, we’d be able to navigate to the exe on a Windows machine, right-click + Properties, and then we’d see a tab with a Digital Signature showing that it is signed.

Thank you for considering!

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Hello and thank you for your message. I’m sorry but for the moment this is not on the agenda as signing up for a Windows application is not free and we can’t and don’t want to do it.

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To clarify things, if our Mac OS application is signed, it’s because we’ve found a developer who has an account with Apple and who has agreed to sign our applications. If one day we find the equivalent on Microsoft Windows, then yes, we could have a signed application, but for the moment this is not an option.

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IT dept can build and sign the app for you themselves.

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Thank you, I understand.