isign

Code sign iOS applications, without proprietary Apple software or hardware (by isignpy)

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  • A Completely Open-Source Implementation of Apple Code Signing and Notarization
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Aug 2022
    Kudos to these developers. I wish them success.

    If I can do a small derail: I and some contributors had this mostly working a few iOS versions ago with isign (https://github.com/isignpy/isign). This is befor notarization. Announced several times to HN but didn’t seem to be interesting to many people.

    This was a spin-off from our work at a testing company. I’m not an iOS developer.

    I tried to make it into something, but I could never figure out who actually wanted this. What potential uses are foreseen for rcodedesign?

    We did a project for a large financial company to make it compatible with hardware security module signing, but they never implemented it due to the pandemic changing priorities, and then someone discovered there was a little-known API to do something similar anyway, so our project was shelved. (We got paid though).

    From time to time I am contacted by people who run alternative app stores, either distributing hacked versions of paid apps, or who run app store in countries under embargo from Western countries. (They have banks, they have iOS apps, their customers have iPhones, they want a way to distribute them). The ethical issues and legal risks seemed significant so I never pursued that. If someone wants to go do that, I guess that’s a use case.

    It might have some use in build pipelines, but without a true Linux build environment it didn’t seem like a win.

    So… again kudos, but what can we do with this? I’m not dissing it, I’m genuine baffled. I also thought this would be important and useful but couldn’t figure it out.

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isignpy/isign is an open source project licensed under GNU General Public License v3.0 or later which is an OSI approved license.

The primary programming language of isign is Python.


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