A "tool" for splitting out Arm from x86 in Mac plugins (in: DSP and Plugin Devel…)

By: hugoderwolf
14 Oct 11:41

Code signing is to ensure the integrity of the code, so its behavior can’t be changed (malware). Also things like resources etc. are signed individually with the same goal. Ripping out an arch from a binary doesn’t change behavior at all, so that in itself is not a security risk, neither for you nor your users. They could have enforced integrity of the complete binary with all archs, but obviously they didn’t. There are probably reasons for that, but either decision would have achieved the desir…

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