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<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 1/2/24 18:22, bsimpson nvastro.com
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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
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<blockquote type="cite">On Jan 2, 2024, at 2:10 PM, Evelyn
Mitchell <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:efmphone@gmail.com"><efmphone@gmail.com></a> wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">You could
use a Let's Encrypt certificate:</div>
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href="https://letsencrypt.org/" moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://letsencrypt.org/</a></div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">The
instructions to get started are at:</div>
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href="https://letsencrypt.org/getting-started/"
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">These are
free certificates, which have tooling to automatically
renew them.</div>
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<div>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?</div>
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<div>Brian S</div>
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