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Where can you get a (cheap or free) digital certificate (for Code Signing jar files)?

4 点作者 juwo将近 18 年前

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dpapathanasiou将近 18 年前
This is one place where cheapest may not be best.<p>We went through a similar thing a few years back with SSL certificates.<p>GoDaddy offered super-cheap (relatively speaking) certs, but none of the major browsers had GoDaddy in their default list of certification entities at that time.<p>So the upshot of using a GoDaddy cert was that every visitor would get a "not trusted" warning, even though the cert was legitimate.<p>That's not something you want your users to see when they're in the middle of signing up or downloading something from your site.<p>I don't know whether or not this concept applies to java & jar too, but you might want to confirm it before making a decision.
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jmw将近 18 年前
It's worse in the mobile space.<p>If you're trying to sign a jar to go on handsets, you pretty much either have to go a thawte certificate ($200), or a verisign certificate ($400) in order to guarantee compatibility with most handsets that are out there.
chmike将近 18 年前
cacert are free certificates but the root certificates are not frequently preinstalled on browsers and mobile phones. I was told that Microsoft asks around 10k$/year to add a root certificate in its browser. Add to this the cost to validate the certification process.<p>If you can get user's cooperation so that they can install the root certificate, you may go with cacert certificates. <p>The more web sites uses cacert, the more chances you will have that the cacert root certificate is preinstalled.<p>Regarding startup opportunity, as long as there is a problem and/or the opportunity to do something useful, the opportunity exists.<p>You might also be interested to follow the progress of my project <a href="http://dis.weebly.com" rel="nofollow">http://dis.weebly.com</a> because one of my objective is to do something in this field. But I am afraid it won't help juwo for is current problem.
juwo将近 18 年前
Thawte wants to charge me $249 just to renew - I paid $50 for the certificate last year.<p>I heard you can get them free from CA Authority but when I looked it up, they have some procedure where you have to know someone who is a CA and attend their events, (which are mostly in Europe or California).
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