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Certificates, provisioning profiles, bundle identifiers and App Store Connect upload rules, and the failure modes they produce in automated pipelines.
AWS says teams can sign binaries, container images and SBOMs with ML-DSA today, using KMS, Private CA and IAM Roles Anywhere. CNSA 2.0 mandates exclusive quantum-resistant software signatures by 2030, and AWS dates the EU CRA's full effect to December 2027.
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Apple's Pass Designer builds and signs .pkpass bundles in the browser, says a dev.to guide that still signs its own loyalty cards on an EC2 Mac. Per-user passes are new payloads, so the private key stays on a macOS host the team runs.
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Cyfamod moved two Expo apps off EAS and onto GitHub Actions, and found that both the upload keystore and the version counter lived outside the repository, where a fresh runner could see neither.
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A dev.to walkthrough of package names and signing certificates is a useful reminder that applicationId and signing keys are not brand assets. Change them and you ship a different app.
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A dev.to writeup lays out owning, renting or borrowing macOS. Rental only beats a $799 Mac mini for eight to forty months, depending on the tier.
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