Code Signing Certificate

[Stephen Warren]

Is this Open Source software? If so, for Linux distribution your best 
bet is probably to get it into Linux package repositories so the 
distribution piggy-backs of the distro's package validation system.

Of course, that doesn't help for Windows or Mac builds, unless it's a 
command-line tool that your users are willing to acquire via Windows 
Subsystem for Linux or Mac's Brew.

On 1/2/24 18:22, bsimpson nvastro.com wrote:
> What letsencrypt.org provides is the way to certify a website and I 
> use them for my website. However I don't believe they have anything to 
> do with certifying a package that you download from a website.  I need 
> to certify my code.
>
>> On Jan 2, 2024, at 2:10 PM, Evelyn Mitchell <efmphone at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 
>> You could use a Let's Encrypt certificate:
>> https://letsencrypt.org/
>>
>> The instructions to get started are at:
>>
>> https://letsencrypt.org/getting-started/
>>
>> These are free certificates, which have tooling to automatically 
>> renew them.
>>
>> Evelyn
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 2, 2024 at 10:22 AM bsimpson nvastro.com 
>> <http://nvastro.com> <bsimpson at nvastro.com> wrote:
>>
>>     I would like to sign some of my software with a certificate so
>>     that prospective users can use their browser to download and
>>     install it onto their computer without seeing warnings about it
>>     being from an unknown and untrusted source.  When I poke around
>>     the web it appears that to get such a certificate it would cost
>>     me at least $200 per year.  This is for software I give out for
>>     free.  Are there any other options available?
>>
>>     Brian S
>>
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