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Originally Posted by KevinH
In addition, any MacOS user can use their KeyChain Utility to create a self-signing certificate for free - just for themselves (not for distribution like mine which requires money and approval from Apple). With their own certificate they can force sign anything they want to prevent MacOS from barfing on it.
If you ever need or want more details, or a template signing script for self-signing Sigil or PageEdit with your own signature, just let me know.
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That sounds like a good idea. So, I did a look-up on Apple Support and found the following:
Spoiler:
Create self-signed certificates in Keychain Access on Mac
You can create a self-signed certificate using Certificate Assistant in Keychain Access. Self-signed certificates don’t provide the guarantees of a certificate signed by a certificate authority, but can be useful if the person signing it is trusted.
1. Go to the Keychain Access app on your Mac.
To open Keychain Access, search for it in Spotlight, then press Return.
2. Choose Keychain Access > Certificate Assistant > Create a Certificate.
3. Enter a name for the certificate.
4. Choose an identity type, then choose the type of certificate.
For an explanation of certificate types, click Learn More.
To manually specify the information in the certificate, such as key pairs, extensions, and encryption, click “Let me override defaults,” then follow the instructions. If you have questions while creating your certificate, click Learn More.
Note: You can create RSA keys up to 4096 bits. RSA keys smaller than 2048 bits are no longer supported.
5. Click Create.
6. Review the certificate, then click Done.
Item 1 worked fine but item 2 was a complete failure. There was no sign of any Certificate Assistant - no mention, no button - nothing. I suppose I could blunder thro and try creating a cert for myself but from the Apple Support it does seem that an 'Assistant' exists. Maybe it used to but not anymore.
Can you shed any light on this?