Name truncated in digitally signing?

[c mateland]

Can anyone shed light on this?

My company got a certificate or VBA digital signing ID for digitially
signing VBA macros inside MS Office. It was issued from VeriSign.
Everything's fine, but the Security Alert dialog box, where the user
chooses to trust the source and enable macros, shows our company name
WITHOUT "Inc". It shows truncated from "XXX Company, Inc." to "XXX
Company,".

Every property in the certificate shows it correctly, but in the dialog
box mentioned above, it truncates. VeriSign can't figure it out and
they are blaming Microsoft, saying I have to call them. I will, but in
the meantime, I'd like to know if anyone has any thoughts on this.

Thanks,
Chuck

 

[c mateland]

The problems seems to be due the "&" in our company name. It cuts off
text from there in the MS Security dialog box where it asks the user to
trust the source.

I know I'm not the only company with an "&" in it's name, so I'm asking
if anyone else has come across this problem?

-Chuck

 

[Michael Herzfeld [MSFT]]

Hi Chuck. We haven't seen this issue before as far as I'm aware, however
I was able to reproduce it in Office 2003. While I doubt we'll be able
to fix this for existing versions of Office, it will display correctly
in Office 12.
Thanks for reporting this!
Michael Herzfeld
Office Programmability Test Team

-----Original Message-----
From: c mateland [mailto:[email protected]]
Posted At: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 12:55 PM
Posted To: microsoft.public.office.developer.vba
Conversation: Name truncated in digitally signing?
Subject: Re: Name truncated in digitally signing?

The problems seems to be due the "&" in our company name. It cuts off
text from there in the MS Security dialog box where it asks the user to
trust the source.

I know I'm not the only company with an "&" in it's name, so I'm asking
if anyone else has come across this problem?

-Chuck

 

[c mateland]

Thanks Michael for the feedback.

I found a workaround for my client and reported it in another group per
their request.
I'm repeating the jist of it here for your information:

....

But further testing showed that if I add a space and a punctuation to
the
end of my certificate name when setting it up, the whole name magically

appears in the dialog box. It seems the "&" cuts off text like a
delimiter, then the space+punctuation restores it.
I chose to use " ." (space+period)

....

The caveat is the technical
properties of the certificate display "Name & Name .". But that's
better than it being truncated. Most users won't look there anyway.
And if they did, it just looks like the normal period at the end of a
statement.

Thanks,
Chuck