authenticode

authenticode

Pure-Go Microsoft Authenticode signing for Windows PE (.exe / .dll) files. No CGO, no osslsigncode shell-out, no PKCS#11 engine — just encoding/asn1 and the standard crypto.Signer interface.

What it does

• Parses PE32 / PE32+ images and computes the Authenticode digest (skipping the file checksum, the attribute-certificate data directory entry, and the existing attribute certificate table, per Microsoft's spec).
• Builds the SpcIndirectDataContent structure and the CMS SignedData ContentInfo with the four Authenticode-required signed attributes (contentType, messageDigest, SpcSpOpusInfo, SpcStatementType).
• Optionally requests an RFC 3161 timestamp from any Content-Type: application/timestamp-query TSA and embeds it under id-smime-aa-timeStampToken.
• Wraps the result in a WIN_CERTIFICATE and writes it into a new attribute certificate table on the PE.

Verified end-to-end with osslsigncode verify (DigiCert-issued code-signing chain, ECDSA P-384 / SHA-384).

Usage

import "github.com/KarpelesLab/authenticode"

// signer is anything implementing authenticode.Signer:
//   crypto.Signer + Certificate() *x509.Certificate + CertificateChain() []*x509.Certificate
// (github.com/KarpelesLab/hsm Key satisfies it directly.)
signed, err := authenticode.Sign(peBytes, signer, authenticode.SignOptions{
    Hash:   crypto.SHA384,
    TSAURL: "http://timestamp.digicert.com",
})

SignWithChain is the lower-level form that accepts a raw crypto.Signer and an explicit chain.

Status

• ECDSA leaf certs only (P-256, P-384, P-521); RSA leaf support and richer compatibility tests are open follow-ups.

License

MIT — see LICENSE.