How do I create a self-signed certificate for code signing on Windows?

Question

How do I create a self-signed certificate for code signing using tools from the Windows SDK?

Answer 1

It's fairly easy using the New-SelfSignedCertificate command in Powershell. Open powershell and run these 3 commands.

1) Create certificate:
$cert = New-SelfSignedCertificate -DnsName www.yourwebsite.com -Type CodeSigning -CertStoreLocation Cert:\CurrentUser\My

2) set the password for it:
$CertPassword = ConvertTo-SecureString -String "my_passowrd" -Force –AsPlainText

3) Export it:
Export-PfxCertificate -Cert "cert:\CurrentUser\My\$($cert.Thumbprint)" -FilePath "d:\selfsigncert.pfx" -Password $CertPassword

Your certificate selfsigncert.pfx will be located @ D:/

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Optional step: You would also require to add certificate password to system environment variables. do so by entering below in cmd: setx CSC_KEY_PASSWORD "my_password"