> Apple can assume 2 applications calling themselves the same thing, with
> different versions, signed with the same self-signed cert were published 
> by
> the same person, and by extension, that any user preferences (firewall and
> parental controls, are the only preferences that use code-signing at the
> moment) associated with that application apply to the new version.

> That said, 10.5's code-signing is not the final destination of this 
> feature
> in OS X. They will extend the scope of code-signing tech in 10.6 and on. 
> It
> was stated on another mailing at some point that Apple may choose to force
> non-code-signed applications down different execution paths.

OK, thank you.  Is it possible, would you happen to know, for an application 
to verify its own signature?  I do this on Windows (using WinVerifyTrust) to 
check that the code has not been tampered with.  Can't trust anybody these 
days :)

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