[Interest] Signing Qt DLLs

[Kai Koehne]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Interest [mailto:interest-bounces+kai.koehne=qt.io at qt-project.org]
> On Behalf Of Bob Babcock
> Sent: Friday, December 09, 2016 6:50 AM
> To: interest at qt-project.org
> Subject: [Interest] Signing Qt DLLs
> 
> Qt packages I download from www.qt.io are digitally signed by The Qt
> Company, but Windows DLLs inside those packages are not signed.  I have
> purchased a code signing cert.  Is it ok if I sign the Qt DLLs distributed with my
> application?  (The app is GPL and it uses otherwise unmodified Qt
> DLLs.)  

This is an interesting question ... but a legal one, so I doubt this is the right forum :/

> Is there any chance that Qt might start signing its DLLs?

I don't think there are immediate plans to do this. Maybe you can file a suggestion?

> The reason for wanting everything to be signed is that Windows Defender
> may flag unsigned executables as possible malware.

If this does help with the false virus scanner positives this is very interesting, indeed.

Regards

Kai