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BernardW
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Sep 07, 2020

Difficulties signing the vba project code

I face difficulties when I want to sign an Excel vba project. The error "A problem occured with the digital certificate. The VBA-project can't be provided by a digital signature. The signature is bei...
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yasensimeonov
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Sep 12, 2022
P. S. A similar issue has been reported as recently as the beginning of this month on StackOverflow: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/73584355/signing-vba-code-in-excel-xlsm-files-there-was-a-problem-with-the-digital-cert
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Anna-Lawgic
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Sep 12, 2022

yasensimeonov Digicert sent us an older version of the SafeNet software - version 10.8.2154.0

 

This version does work when signing VBA macros.  Anyone at our firm with a newer version cannot sign macros. 

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    yasensimeonov
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    Sep 12, 2022

    Anna-Lawgic This (10.8.2154.0) is the default version of the SafeNet Authentication client that DigiCert asked us to install when we received and initiated the token. Yet it still does not work with signing Excel VBA projects/macros for us:

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      Anna-Lawgic
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      Sep 12, 2022
      My apologies - it's a 10.0 version that works with VBA.

      This is the link sent to me by their support team: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mcrBcb_pMGGYp2q4nHfOWR8lC81CwYDP/view?usp=sharing
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        yasensimeonov
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        Sep 13, 2022

        Anna-Lawgic Thank you! I will keep this version, but abstain from installing it (for now) until I get a response from DigiCert support. Version 10.0 seems a bit too old for me, I remember we were able to sign VBA with a more recent version like 10.5 (or newer) pre-May 2022.

         

        Actually found this version history/release log of SafeNet Authentication Client: https://data-protection-updates.gemalto.com/category/safenet-authentication-client/ 

        According to that, the two previous Windows releases are:

        1) 10.8 R5 (July 2021): https://data-protection-updates.gemalto.com/2021/07/01/sac-10-8-r5-for-windows-sac-low-level-sdk-1-6-2-safenet-minidriver-10-8-r3-for-windows-release-update/ 

        2) 10.8 R2 (July 2020): https://data-protection-updates.gemalto.com/2020/07/30/safenet-authentication-client-sac-10-8-r2-for-windows-and-safenet-minidriver-10-8-r2-release-announcement/ 

         

        Hopefully DigiCert support can point us to the most recent VBA-compatible/signable version, so that we don't miss out on other purposes we use the EV cert for - like .exe/.dll/.msi installer signing.

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