Hi folks,

Just want to move things forward as this is going to be essential for NFC story 
soon.

Here is the bug:
Bug 973823 - Developer signature for apps on the marketplace 

Who would like to jump in?

Cheers,
Wesley

On Aug 22, 2014, at 5:03 AM, Kamil Leszczuk <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi All!,
> 
> can we start a more detailed discussion on how can we have the maretplace 
> support for the developer signatures?
> 
> Do we need:
> - use cases/user stories?
> - more detailed requirements?
> - anything else?
> 
> We'd be glad to help out, of course.
> 
> Best,
> Kamil
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 7:03 AM, Paul Theriault <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On 7 Aug 2014, at 2:52 am, Andy McKay <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> >
> > On Aug 1, 2014, at 2:34 AM, Stéphanie Ouillon <[email protected]> 
> > wrote:
> >> For specific reasons detailed below [3], we need to support a signature
> >> model compatible with the Android model [4]. Until now, the Marketplace
> >> has been using the same tools/model.
> >>
> >> If we're to support developer signing, we can imagine several models:
> >>
> >> 1) handling multiple signatures: the app is signed twice, once by the
> >> developer and once by the Marketplace (e.g.: having two manifest files
> >> in META-INF signed by each key)
> >
> > Signing twice would seem to be the simplest, since it doesn’t need any 
> > trust between the Marketplace and the developer. The signing by the 
> > Marketplace indicates a different thing (Mozilla approves this app) from 
> > the Developer signing (that over a period of release we can trust the app 
> > is from the some developer).
> >
> > Would the Marketplace be expected to do anything with that developer 
> > signing - for example, check that the signing is by certain trusted 
> > developers, or stays the same over time or anything else?
> 
> Initially I don’t think it _needs_ to do anything at least initially, but yes 
> I can imagine that we would want to enforce some security controls such as 
> checking that the signature was valid before adding our signature. Perhaps 
> associating a signature with an account so that developers can vouch for 
> their content.
> 
> >
> > Are there limits on the types of apps that could be signed, e.g.: only 
> > Packaged apps?
> 
> Yes, only static apps can be signed - i.e. only packaged apps. Signing 
> dynamically generated content defeats the purpose of signing.
> 
> >
> > Andy
> >
> >
> >
> 
> 
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