Programmatic Signing of Native Windows Mobile Apps

Question

Is there any certificate authority that allows for programmatic signing of windows mobile applications? At the moment my team uses Geotrust. Our build procedure looks like this:

• Build app
• "pre-sign" app with multi-step tool (
• fill out form and upload "pre-signed" app on geotrust web site
• download signed app
• repeat

There must be a better way to do this.

Answer 1

Verisign provide a SOAP API that you can automate for M2M signing when using the "new" signing procedures.

The company I work for use Verisign using the old method and we build a application to automate the web forum filling out and uploading which worked ok. We are in the middle of re-writing to use the SOAP API instead under the new M2M signing rules.