{"id":51499,"date":"2026-04-07T18:53:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T22:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=51499"},"modified":"2026-04-07T18:53:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T22:53:53","slug":"dynamic-notarization-checks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/07\/dynamic-notarization-checks\/","title":{"rendered":"Dynamic Notarization Checks?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/social.lol\/@tylerhall\/116342310120183793\">Tyler Hall<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/social.lol\/@tylerhall\/116342310120183793\">\n<p>I submitted a new build of one of my Mac apps to Apple&rsquo;s Notary service - like every new release. Normally, the notarization goes through in just a few minutes. Today, multiple builds have been pending for 2+ hours. And, weirdly, my API server is getting traffic from those two builds I submitted for notarization.<\/p>\n<p>Does Apple&rsquo;s notary service&#8230;launch and run app submissions? I&rsquo;ve never noticed this behavior before.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.malwarebytes.com\/blog\/news\/2020\/08\/apples-notarization-process-fails-to-protect?utm_source=chatgpt.com\">Thomas Reed<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.malwarebytes.com\/blog\/news\/2020\/08\/apples-notarization-process-fails-to-protect?utm_source=chatgpt.com\">\n<p>In theory, the notarization process is supposed to weed out anything malicious. In practice, nobody really understands exactly how notarization works, and Apple is not inclined to share details.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>All developers and security researchers know is that notarization is fast. I&rsquo;ve personally notarized software quite a few times at this point, and it usually takes less than a couple minutes between submission and receipt of the e-mail confirming success of notarization. That means there&rsquo;s definitely no human intervention involved in the process, as there is with App Store reviews. Whatever it is, it&rsquo;s solely automated.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tyler Hall: I submitted a new build of one of my Mac apps to Apple&rsquo;s Notary service - like every new release. Normally, the notarization goes through in just a few minutes. Today, multiple builds have been pending for 2+ hours. And, weirdly, my API server is getting traffic from those two builds I submitted [&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":"2026-04-07T22:53:40Z","apple_news_api_id":"a3baee5d-2062-4e09-bcec-0002f2c3b006","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2026-04-07T22:53:40Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/Ao7ruXSBiTgm87AAC8sOwBg","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":[2],"tags":[30,2742,1842,71,50],"class_list":["post-51499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-mac","tag-macos-tahoe-26","tag-notarization","tag-programming","tag-webapi"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51499","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=51499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51500,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51499\/revisions\/51500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}