Non-Apple Issued Code Signing Certificate: Can it Work with Mac OS 10.8 Gatekeeper?

Question

Our company develops our application for both OS X and Windows. We have an existing purchased code signing certificate from a non-Apple authority we use to ID our Windows i

Answer 1

Cannot take credit for this, but the blunt answer is:

NO

I just spent a good three days converting certificates and searching the internets to find these:

http://successfulsoftware.net/2012/08/30/how-to-sign-your-mac-os-x-app-for-gatekeeper/ http://www.panic.com/blog/2012/02/about-gatekeeper/ http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/02/developers-gatekeeper-a-concern-but-still-gives-power-users-control/