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TomGriffith3
Aug 14, 2024Brass Contributor
Signing VBA in Word
Hello. I am attempting to sign VBA in a Word file. I imported a PFX file to my Personal Certificates (via edge://settings/privacy). I also confirmed the import via certmgr.msc (it's there under Perso...
Kidd_Ip
Aug 15, 2024MVP
Please check certificate intended purpose:
- Opening the certificate in the Certificates MMC (certmgr.msc)
- Navigating to the Details tab
- Looking for the Enhanced Key Usage field. It should list Code Signing
- TomGriffith3Aug 15, 2024Brass ContributorHi Kidd_Ip, thank you so much. Yeah, I had checked crtmgr.msc and it says Server Authentication. i was just reading how TLS certs are different than code signing certs but found it strange in the second screenshot above how "Code Signing" and "Time Stamping" are selected among Certificate Purposes. Yet they don't show up in Intended Purposes. I wonder if Windows is able to read something inside the PFX structure to tell it that the cert is only a "Server Authentication" cert.