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I'm having trouble understanding the apple tutorial on codesigning. I'm looking for a simpler explanation.

http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/Security/Conceptual/CodeSigningGuide/Introduction/Introduction.html

A: 

Assuming you are trying to get an app on your phone...

If this is indeed your case, unless you feel like doing a bunch of hacking, you need to be a registared developer, ie someone needs to have paid the $99. In which case i've found that the best documentation on how to actually get an app on your phone, in beta testers hands or on the apps store is in the developer portol.

Go to: http://developer.apple.com/iphone/ Login, then got to "iphone developer portol", there are a bunch of howto's located on the right.

-Ben

Ben
So... it appears that the code signing is fairly automatic if you are using a certificate from the developer program?
Neo42
Yup. Once you've created a certificate and created a provisioning profile everything else happens pretty automatically. For example if you have a valid provisioning profile attached to Xcode, Xcode will will automatically attach them to new projects.
Ben
+2  A: 

I got this video for free during a promo and it's great. Normally $5, Dan Grisby of Movile Orchard walks you through the entire process and makes it way easier to understand.

JoePasq
thank you. I'll check it out.
Neo42