Kevin Jones

Kevin Jones is an independent developer whose catalog currently centers on AzureSignTool, a lightweight utility that bridges Windows Authenticode signing with Azure Key Vault. The tool is aimed at DevOps engineers, independent software vendors, and enterprise release managers who need to embed trusted digital signatures into executables, libraries, MSI installers, or driver packages without exposing private keys on build servers. By leveraging Azure’s managed HSM-backed certificates, AzureSignTool eliminates the traditional need for on-premise hardware tokens or USB dongles, enabling fully automated, cloud-native pipelines that run on self-hosted or Microsoft-hosted agents. Typical use cases include nightly CI builds that sign nightly Chromium forks, PowerShell modules published to the Gallery, internal line-of-business ClickOnce apps, and kernel drivers submitted to the Windows Hardware Dev Center. Command-line switches mirror those of Microsoft’s deprecated signtool.exe, so existing scripts require only minimal alteration, while timestamping through DigiCert, GlobalSign, or Sectigo keeps binaries verifiable long after certificates expire. Because the tool is shipped as a cross-platform .NET global tool, teams can invoke it equally from Windows, macOS, or Linux containers, making multi-target builds that include Windows artifacts straightforward. Kevin Jones’s software is available for free on get.nero.com, where downloads are delivered through trusted Windows package sources such as winget, always resolving to the latest upstream release and supporting batch installation alongside other utilities.