{"id":40765,"date":"2023-10-10T16:23:23","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T20:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=40765"},"modified":"2023-10-10T16:23:23","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T20:23:23","slug":"the-care-and-feeding-of-developer-id","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/10\/the-care-and-feeding-of-developer-id\/","title":{"rendered":"The Care and Feeding of Developer ID"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/forums\/thread\/732320\">Quinn<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/forums\/thread\/732320\"><p>I regularly see folks run into problems with their Developer ID signing identities.  Historically I pointed them to <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/forums\/thread\/659545\">my posts on this thread<\/a>, but I&rsquo;ve decided to collect these ideas together in one place.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>This post focuses on traditional signing identities, where <em>you<\/em> manage the private key.  Xcode Cloud introduced cloud signing, where signing identities are &ldquo;stored securely in the cloud&rdquo;.  These identities have the <em>Managed<\/em> suffix in <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/account\/\">Certificates, Identifiers, and Profiles<\/a>.  For example, Developer ID Application Managed is the cloud signing equivalent of Developer ID Application.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>Even without a hardware token, there are steps you can take to protect your Developer ID signing identity. For example, you might put it in a separate keychain, one with a different password and locking policy than your login keychain. That way signing code for distribution will prompt you to unlock the keychain, which reminds you that this is a significant event and ensures that you don&rsquo;t do it accidentally.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>Given that Developer ID signing identities are precious, consider making an independent backup of them.  To back up a signing identity to a PKCS#12 (<code>.p12<\/code>) file[&#8230;]<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quinn: I regularly see folks run into problems with their Developer ID signing identities. Historically I pointed them to my posts on this thread, but I&rsquo;ve decided to collect these ideas together in one place.[&#8230;]This post focuses on traditional signing identities, where you manage the private key. Xcode Cloud introduced cloud signing, where signing identities [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2023-10-10T20:23:27Z","apple_news_api_id":"c6737ce2-50f4-4f89-a8d0-ea5d50f6030e","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2023-10-10T20:23:27Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AxnN84lD0T4mo0OpdUPYDDg","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[466,465,1583,30,2385,71],"class_list":["post-40765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming-category","tag-codesigning","tag-gatekeeper","tag-keychain","tag-mac","tag-macos-14-sonoma","tag-programming"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40766,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40765\/revisions\/40766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}