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by hmartin 75 days ago
Could you explain more about how the signing setup works?

(That's what held me back most for spending more effort on shortcuts.)

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From the repo, it signs natively on macOS and falls back to a cloud signing server (shortcut-signing-server). That fallback matters -- without macOS you would have to reverse-engineer Apple signing format yourself, and it changes across iOS versions. The hosted signing server is really what makes the whole cross-platform toolchain viable.
I wonder if https://crates.io/crates/apple-codesign is sufficient to codesign these. Apple usually re-uses these sort of things.
The signing server is hosted by https://routinehub.co/

They offer an API if you’d prefer not to manage signing yourself.