Signing a PowerShell script with self-signed certificates (and without makecert.exe)

Question

I\'m trying to sign a .ps1 using self-signed certificates (the use case is for scripts I write myself on my private dev station, so no need to use - or pay for - a

Answer 1

$cert = New-SelfSignedCertificate -CertStoreLocation Cert:\CurrentUser\My -Type CodeSigningCert -Subject "Code Signing"

Move-Item -Path $cert.PSPath -Destination "Cert:\CurrentUser\Root"

Set-AuthenticodeSignature -FilePath c:\go.ps1 -Certificate $cert

source https://blogs.u2u.be/u2u/post/creating-a-self-signed-code-signing-certificate-from-powershell