Signing Adobe AIR applications
MPF provides a default certificate for development and test purposes. For production, obtain a certificate from a certificate authority and install it.
Adobe AIR applications must be digitally signed in order for users to install them. MPF provides a default certificate for signing AIR applications that can be used for development and test purposes.
To sign an AIR application for production distribution, using our own certificate, follow these instructions:
- Obtain a PKCS12 certificate from a certificate authority, and export it as a PFX file.
- Place this certificate on the hard disk.
- Set the <certificate> element under the <air> element in the application descriptor. The structure of the <certificate> element is:
<certificate password="password" PFXFilePath="path-to-pfx"/>
where password is the password for the PFX certificate, and path-to-pfx can either be relative to the root of the application, or an absolute path.
Parent topic: Development guidelines for desktop and web environments