Jsign - Java implementation of Microsoft Authenticode

Jsign is a Java implementation of Microsoft Authenticode that lets you sign and timestamp executable files for Windows, Microsoft Installers (MSI) and scripts. Jsign is platform independent and provides an alternative to native tools like signcode/signtool on Windows or the Mono development tools on Unix systems.

Jsign comes as an easy to use task/plugin for the main build systems (Maven, Gradle, Ant). It's especially suitable for signing executable wrappers and installers generated by tools like NSIS, msitools, install4j, exe4j or launch4j. Jsign can also be used programmatically or standalone as a command line tool.

Jsign is free to use and licensed under the Apache License version 2.0.

Features

Platform independent signing of Windows executables, DLLs, Microsoft Installers (MSI) and scripts (PowerShell, VBScript, JScript, WSF)
Timestamping with retries and fallback on alternative servers (RFC 3161 and Authenticode protocols supported)
Supports multiple signatures per file, for all file types
Hashing algorithms: MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256, SHA-384 and SHA-512
Keystores supported: PKCS#12, JKS and PKCS#11 hardware tokens
Private key formats: PVK and PEM (PKCS#1 and PKCS#8), encrypted or not
Certificates: PKCS#7 in PEM and DER format
Build tools integration (Maven, Gradle, Ant)
Command line signing tool
Authenticode signing API (Javadoc)

See https://ebourg.github.io/jsign for more information.

Changes

Version 3.1 (2020-03-01)

Certificate files can now be used with a PKCS11 token to support OpenPGP cards unable to hold a whole certificate chain (contributed by Erwin Tratar)
Fixed an IllegalArgumentException when parsing large entries of MSI files

Version 3.0 (2020-01-07)

Jsign now requires Java 8 or higher
MSI signing has been implemented
Script signing has been implemented: PowerShell (contributed by Björn Kautler), VBScript, JScript and WSF
The Maven plugin now uses the proxy defined in the Maven settings for the timestamping (contributed by Denny Bayer)
The Maven plugin now accepts passwords encrypted using the Maven security settings (contributed by Denny Bayer)
The Maven plugin is now bound by default to the package phase
The timestamping is no longer enabled by default with the Maven plugin
Renamed the command line tool from pesign to jsign
Renamed the Ant task and the Gradle extension method from signexe to jsign
SOCKS proxies are now supported
Fixed the invalid SHA-512 signatures (contributed by Markus Kilås)
The non-timestamped signatures are now reproducible (the signingTime attribute has been removed)
Upgraded BouncyCastle to 1.64

Version 2.1 (2018-10-08)

Fixed the loading of SunPKCS11 configuration files with Java 9
SunPKCS11 configuration files can be loaded from any directory
Maven plugin settings can now be passed on the command line (contributed by Nicolas Roduit)
The first timestamping authority specified is no longer skipped (contributed by Thomas Atzmueller)
Fixed the typo on the withTimestampingAuthority() methods in PESigner (contributed by Bjørn Madsen)
Upgraded BouncyCastle to 1.60

Version 2.0 (2017-06-12)

Jsign now requires Java 7 or higher
Multiple signatures are now supported. New signatures can replace or be added to the previous ones.
PKCS#11 hardware tokens are now supported.
The signature algorithm can now be specified independently of the digest algorithm (contributed by Markus Kilås)
Timestamping is attempted 3 times by default with a 10 seconds pause if an exception occurs (contributed by Erwin Tratar)
Timestamping can now fail over to other services
Private keys in PEM format are now supported (PKCS#1 and PKCS#8, encrypted or not)
Upgraded BouncyCastle to 1.54 (contributed by Markus Kilås)
Fixed the Accept header for RFC 3161 requests (contributed by Markus Kilås)
Internal refactoring to share the code between the Ant task and the CLI tool (contributed by Michael Peterson)
The code has been split into distinct modules (core, ant, cli).
Jsign is now available as a plugin for Maven (net.jsign:jsign-maven-plugin) and Gradle
The API can be used to sign in-memory files using a SeekableByteChannel

Version 1.3 (2016-08-04)

The command line tool now supports HTTP proxies (contributed by Michael Szediwy)
RFC 3161 timestamping services are now supported (contributed by Florent Daigniere)
The digest algorithm now defaults to SHA-256
The shaded dependencies are now relocated to avoid conflicts
Added SHA-384 and SHA-512 checksums support
SHA-2 is accepted as an alias for SHA-256

Version 1.2 (2013-01-10)

Reduced the memory usage when signing large files
Files over 2GB are now supported
Improved the thread safety

Version 1.1 (2012-11-03)

Command line interface with bash completion for signing files (available as RPM and DEB packages)
The keystore is no longer locked if the signing fails

Version 1.0 (2012-10-05)

Initial release

mlocati / jsign