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Avoid 3-staged warnings in installation flow on Windows, get around "Gate Keeper" on macOS #73

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kilrau opened this issue Nov 4, 2020 · 3 comments
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kilrau commented Nov 4, 2020

Currently Windows Users are facing three different scary-looking warnings when downloading the XUD Explorer Binary with Chrome and running it for the first time:

  1. Chrome throwing this on beginning of download: "This file is not commonly downloaded and may be dangerous." -> discard/Keep"
  2. Chrome throwing this after download completed: "temporarily unsafe (hacked)" -> "Discard/Keep anyway"
  3. Windows SmartScreen

#3 is easily fixed with an EV developer certificate.

#1 + #2 can be fixed by different means, but according to https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12231581/program-download-ie-chrome-is-not-commonly-downloaded-and-could-be-dangerou easiest by uploading the .exe to Google Drive - pretty evil by Google but it works and avoids any warning within Chrome.

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kilrau commented Nov 11, 2020

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kilrau commented Dec 14, 2020

Current status

Microsoft: https://sectigo.com/ssl-certificates-tls/code-signing is cheapest (349 USD/year)
Apple: created Apple Developer account, but program enrolment won't go through:
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@kilrau kilrau changed the title Avoid 3-staged warnings in installation flow on Windows Avoid 3-staged warnings in installation flow on Windows, get around "Gate Keeper" on macOS Dec 15, 2020
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