Windows CC Extensions Signed Toolkit Not Working

Question

We are working on automating our extension building so we can package it into and installer.  We found the CC Extensions Signing Toolkits downloads here:
http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/extensionbuilder3.html
The Mac version works on developer machines, but our bulid machines have an older version of OS X and are not supported, so we tried to used the Windows versions.  We are unable to sign a package with this error:
C:\build\client_extension>ccextensionswin64.exe -sign .\ExtensionContent Panel.zxp cert.p12 '<password>'
Error - Failed to parse certificate. Signing failed. Check you're using PKCS12 format.
We are aslo unable to create a new key with the tool.  When we try something like this:
ccextensionswin64.exe -selfSignedCert USA GA Turner BPS 'nit6#deg' cnncert.p12
The application just crashes.  These failures were seen on Windows 7 with both the 32 and 64 bit tools.

Answer 1

Hi bdebacker,
I've tried to reproduce the behaviour you're seeing and it looks like there are a few things wrong.
Firstly, when signing your ZXP you don't necessarily need to use quotes around the P12 password - however, if you need to for escaping purposes, you should use double quotes.
The following gives me the same error you're seeing:
ccextensionswin64.exe -sign .\inputfolder outzxp.zxp ..\mycert.p12 'mypassword'
Error - Failed to parse certificate. Signing failed. Check you're using PKCS12 format.
But replacing the single quotes with double quotes as follows allows me to sign successfully:
ccextensionswin64.exe -sign .\inputfolder outzxp.zxp ..\mycert.p12 "mypassword"
Signed successfully
Secondly, regarding creating a self-signed certificate - I think the problem is that you're using a three letter country code, whereas it expects a two letter country code from this list:http://www.digicert.com/ssl-certificate-country-codes.htm (we'll need to add some error messaging around this in a future release). The following command works for me:
ccextensionswin64.exe -selfSignedCert US GA Turner BPS 'nit6#deg' cnncert.p12
Let us know if you're still having problems.
Best wishes,
Fraser