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Digital Signature to verify Publisher...
Shades:
Some two years ago I did quite some research on the matter and I learned then that you have to pay a lot (annually) if you are a person who wants to certify...and a whole lot more if you are a business. >:(
By that time there was an Israeli company that didn't charge for this at all, but it was not accepted as a valid CA. However, that should be done by now. Unfortunately the name escaped from my mind :o
Codebyte:
Ahh, that would have been cool, but no worries... The more that I'm thinking about it, ill just deal with it lol... Unless of course I happen to write something worthwhile lol! Thanks for all the help Shades!
Shades:
Some links that might be interesting:
The Israeli company:
http://cert.startcom.org/
Overview root CA's (pie chart):
http://news.netcraft.com/SSL-Survey/CMatch/certs_il
Reasoning behind the use of root certificates:
http://www.math.ucla.edu/~jimc/documents/certauth.html
mwb1100:
However, remember that not any SSL certificate is considered acceptable for the purposes of code signing. The certificates accepted for code signing are different from the certificates that browsers accept for SSL.
As far as I know, there are no free code signing certs.
f0dder:
As mwb says, code cert != SSL cert. And self-signed certs aren't very good for SSL sessions, unless you have pretty specific purpose. It's a good thing that there aren't any free code signing certs, and that you can't self-sign... Yes it's a damn bother, and yes it should be a lot cheaper, but it helps in the fight against nasty malware.
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