How to Generate Your Own Free Digital Signature

December 5, 2008

The Adobe® AIR™ Software Development Kit comes with a command-line utility that will let you create a free digital certificate. 

  1. Download and unzip the free Adobe AIR SDK.

  2. Open a command prompt to the "/bin" folder in the sdk.

  3. Execute the command below which was adapted from the command shown on the Adobe Developer Connection. (Replace the highlighted text with your own values.)
    adt -certificate -cn YourCommonName 1024-RSA test_cert.pfx YourPassword


  4. Now open the "/bin" folder and you should see the file that was generated.


Visit the Adobe Developer Connection for more details and how to sign an AIR applicatoin with your digital signature.

Adobe Developer Connection:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/air/articles/signing_air_applications_print.html
Anthony Tietjen

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