How to resolve warning: You are installing software that contain unsigned content and authenticity and validity of this software can not established

Parag Kuhikar picture Parag Kuhikar · Jul 15, 2013 · Viewed 22.9k times · Source

I am new to Android . I installed Eclipse Kepler version.

I followed this link.

https://sites.google.com/site/barsham/list-of-topics-1/programming/eclipse-android-windows-64

After doing the following step :

6.1. Start Eclipse, then select Help > Install New Software....

6.2 Click Add, in the top-right corner.

6.3 In the Add Repository dialog that appears, enter "ADT Plugin" for the Name and the following URL for the Location:

https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/eclipse/

I tried both https and http url.

But the same error box popup which contain the warning related to unsigned content and authenticity.

Please help.

Answer

Aquarius Power picture Aquarius Power · Dec 20, 2015

The warning is about security, it is good for you to always care about security warnings and understand them.

As I see it, many developers do not care on creating the signature (or may be it is too troubling?), anyway, for open-source plugins I think it is ok to ignore the warning, as long it is a popular (or at least old enough) plugin. In a sense that, other users may have already poked around the code or reported about security problems related to it.

More about it here.