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Added Security: Digital Signature by Patchou on 09-27-2004 at 09:52 PM
Hello everyone,
I'm currently working on version 3.21 (which will mostly include improvements for the Flaoting Contacts feature) and I thought you may want to know that I've been investing in a Digital Signature. This kind of thing is very expensive and necessitates lots of papers, however, I'm sure that you will enjoy appreciate the added security it will offer. Microsoft and many other companies are adding more and more security-oriented features in their software and I think it is now time for Messenger Plus! to use them.
If everything goes alright with the verificatioon process, I'll be able to sign all my binaries (like the setup) with a certificate bearing the name "Patchou". That way, you'll never have towonder if the version of Plus! you're trying to install is valid, supposed to be distributed publicly (I won't sign beta versions) and has not been tempered with.
That's all I wanted to say 
Patchou
RE: Added Security: Digital Signature by MC Inferno on 09-27-2004 at 10:00 PM
I was going to say it sounds good, but I'm a little worried tbh.
As long as it helps MP!3 though 
RE: Added Security: Digital Signature by CookieRevised on 09-27-2004 at 11:25 PM
Patchou ... very good indeed...
quote:There is nothing to be worried about... in fact it is done so you need to be even less worried then before.... Like Patchou said, these days you never know what you have in your hands when you download something from the net. Is it tampered with? Is it modified? Is there a virus attached to it? etc... etc... With digital signing, the author puts a kind of signature under his package which will be checked automaticly. If anything has been modified, the signature will be invalid. So in that way you will know 100% sure, that you have a full legit unmodified version....
Originally posted by MC Inferno
I was going to say it sounds good, but I'm a little worried tbh.
http://www.microsoft.com/winlogo/benefits/signature-benefits.mspx
http://www.winnetmag.com/Windows/Article/ArticleID/4772/4772.html