Plus this important note for Win 7 users:
Windows 7 requires hotfix to accept SHA-256 code signature
Operating systems:
Windows 7 32/64 bit
Problem description:
By default, Windows 7 does not accept SHA-256 code signatures, it accepts SHA-1 signatures only.
However, SHA-1 based certificates are deprecated and not available any longer. All recent code
singing certificates use the SHA-256 algorithm.
Microsoft has released a hotfix that adds support for SHA-256 certificates on Windows 7. The hotfix
KB3033929 can be found here:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3033929Note that KB3033929 is available through Windows update. So the easiest solution is to make sure
this update is installed.
Additional information:
This problem does not exist on Windows 8 and later.