Digital Signatures for RefProp DLL's?

[wnewhauser]

Would it be possible to add digital signatures to REFPROP.DLL and REFPRP64.DLL? When referenced from a C# program, the anti-virus is wanting to block the C# program from running. I'm speculating it's because the anti-virus sees references to a native-code dll that is not digitally signed and thinks it could be malicious. Not 100% sure this would fix the problem, but it would be a step in the right direction. Vendors like Comodo and others offer code signing certs fairly inexpensively. Thoughts...

[ianhbell]

Yes! Currently we sign the installer but not the DLL. It would be easy enough to sign the DLL. What version of the DLL are you looking for right now?

[wnewhauser]

10.0.

Also, would be awesome if you could put the version # in the DLL's so you it when you right click in Windows Explorer and select Properties->Details you see it. Thanks!

[ianhbell]

I added that here: usnistgov/REFPROP-cmake@b5be54b

[ianhbell]

Do you happen to know how to add the version to a shared library in CMake?

[ianhbell]

To answer my own question: https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/prop_tgt/VERSION.html . Now to grep out the version from the REFPROP sources...

[wnewhauser]

Any idea when you could publish the signed RefProp DLL's? Have a current project where the anti-virus won't let our own program execute presumably because it's linked to the unsigned RefProp DLLs. TIA!

[ianhbell]

I forwarded this request to our engineer responsible for signing